[PATCH RFC v6 2/6] dpll: Add DPLL framework base functions

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Fri May 5 08:35:31 PDT 2023


On Fri, 5 May 2023 12:41:11 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >connector label (i.e. front panel label)? Or also applicable to
> >internal pins? It'd be easier to talk details if we had the user
> >facing documentation that ships with these products.  
> 
> I think is is use case specific. Some of the pins face the user over
> physical port, they it is a front panel label. Others are internal
> names. I have no clue how to define and mainly enforce rules here.

It should be pretty easy to judge if we see the user-facing
documentation vendors have.

> But as an example, if you have 2 pins of the same type, only difference
> is they are connected to front panel connector "A" and "B", this is the
> label you have to pass to the ID query. Do you see any other way?

Sound perfectly fine, if it's a front panel label, let's call 
the attribute DPLL_A_PIN_FRONT_PANEL_LABEL. If the pin is not
brought out to the front panel it will not have this attr.
For other type of labels we should have different attributes.



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