Re: [PATCH RFC leds + net-next v4 0/2] Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs

[Andrew Lunn]

> > 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