Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 2020 15:29:20 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC leds + net-next v4 0/2] Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs |
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> > And no, I don't want phydev name there. > > Ummm. Can we get little more explanation on that? I fear that LED > device renaming will be tricky and phydev would work around that > nicely.
Hi Pavel
The phydev name is not particularly nice:
!mdio-mux!mdio@1!switch@0!mdio:00 !mdio-mux!mdio@1!switch@0!mdio:01 !mdio-mux!mdio@1!switch@0!mdio:02 !mdio-mux!mdio@2!switch@0!mdio:00 !mdio-mux!mdio@2!switch@0!mdio:01 !mdio-mux!mdio@2!switch@0!mdio:02 !mdio-mux!mdio@4!switch@0!mdio:00 !mdio-mux!mdio@4!switch@0!mdio:01 !mdio-mux!mdio@4!switch@0!mdio:02 400d0000.ethernet-1:00 400d0000.ethernet-1:01 fixed-0:00
The interface name are:
1: lo: 2: eth0: 3: eth1: 4: lan0@eth1: 5: lan1@eth1: 6: lan2@eth1: 7: lan3@eth1: 8: lan4@eth1: 9: lan5@eth1: 10: lan6@eth1: 11: lan7@eth1: 12: lan8@eth1: 13: optical3@eth1: 14: optical4@eth1:
You could make a good guess at matching to two together, but it is error prone. Phys are low level things which the user is not really involved in. They interact with interface names. ethtool, ip, etc, all use interface names. In fact, i don't know of any tool which uses phydev names.
Andrew
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