Re: [PATCH net-next 5/9] phy: add phy_get_rx_polarity() and phy_get_tx_polarity()

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:33:37 +0200 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Add helpers in the generic PHY folder which can be used using 'select
> GENERIC_PHY_COMMON_PROPS' from Kconfig, without otherwise needing to
> enable GENERIC_PHY.
> 
> These helpers need to deal with the slight messiness of the fact that
> the polarity properties are arrays per protocol, and with the fact that
> there is no default value mandated by the standard properties, all
> default values depend on driver and protocol (PHY_POL_NORMAL may be a
> good default for SGMII, whereas PHY_POL_AUTO may be a good default for
> PCIe).
> 
> Push the supported mask of polarities to these helpers, to simplify
> drivers such that they don't need to validate what's in the device tree
> (or other firmware description).
> 
> The proposed maintainership model is joint custody between netdev and
> linux-phy, because of the fact that these properties can be applied to
> Ethernet PCS blocks just as well as Generic PHY devices. I've added as
> maintainers those from "ETHERNET PHY LIBRARY", "NETWORKING DRIVERS" and
> "GENERIC PHY FRAMEWORK".

I dunno.. ain't no such thing as "joint custody" maintainership.
We have to pick one tree. Given the set of Ms here, I suspect 
the best course of action may be to bubble this up to its own tree.
Ask Konstantin for a tree in k.org, then you can "co-post" the patches
for review + PR link in the cover letter (e.g. how Tony from Intel
submits their patches). This way not networking and PHY can pull
the shared changes with stable commit IDs.

We can do out-of-sequence netdev call tomorrow if folks want to talk
this thru (8:30am Pacific)

> +GENERIC PHY COMMON PROPERTIES
> +M:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> +M:	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> +M:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> +M:	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> +M:	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> +M:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@kernel.org>
> +M:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> +R:	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> +M:	Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>

checkpatch nit: apparently it wants all Ms first, then all Rs.

> +L:	linux-phy@lists.infradead.org
> +L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-phy/list/
> +Q:	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/phy/linux-phy.git
> +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-common-props.yaml
> +F:	drivers/phy/phy-common-props.c
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