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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:05:28 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: pse-pd: Add PD692x0 PSE controller
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:42:46PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:

> The main question is - how to represent a remote consumer (Powered
> Device)? It looks for me like having a dummy regulator consumer for each
> (PSE PI) withing the PSE framework is the simplest thing to do. User
> should enable this dummy consumer from user space by using already
> existing interface in case of PoDL - ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL
> or new interface for Clause 33 PSE.

That's not even a dummy consumer - the physical power output from the
system is a real, physical thing that we can point at just as much as
any other physical device.  Some kind of library/helper thing that
connects up with other interfaces for controlling network ports like you
suggest above does seem like a good fit here.

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