[PATCH] realtek-poe: add support for PoE on Realtek switches

[David Bauer]

Hi Bjorn,
Hi John,

On 9/26/21 10:43, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> writes:
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>> poemgr does not use the APIs provided by libubox so I doubt that this
>> will land in the tree.
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> It's going through the packages repo according to
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/a9839697896c4fdf8c44a06bbce466ce52493069
> 
> The distinction is of little imprtance to the outside world.  You will
> have poemgr in OpenWrt.

poemgr is set to land in the packages feed. I don't have stakes in the realtek PoE business
and poemgr is more or less the result of a weekend hacking around the specific device (USW-Lite).

I didn't fully catch up what the ultimate goal around PoE support is, but having the ability to
control the ports in the first place being it with a non-preinstalled tool from the packages repo
is a good start where we can iterate upon and either integrate support for an additional PSE controller
with it's quirks or aim for an extension of a kernel subsystem.

That being set, the goal of poemgr is not to replace the other efforts. I'm sorry if I caused this impression.

Best
David

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