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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, upstream@airoha.com, Heiner Kallweit , Alexandre Belloni , Alexandre Torgue , Christophe Leroy , Clark Wang , Claudiu Beznea , Claudiu Manoil , Conor Dooley , Ioana Ciornei , Jonathan Corbet , Joyce Ooi , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Li Yang , Madalin Bucur , Madhavan Srinivasan , Maxime Coquelin , Michael Ellerman , Michal Simek , Naveen N Rao , Nicholas Piggin , Nicolas Ferre , Radhey Shyam Pandey , Rob Herring , Rob Herring , Robert Hancock , Saravana Kannan , Shawn Guo , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Vladimir Oltean , Wei Fang , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org References: <20250403181907.1947517-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250407182738.498d96b0@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390> <720b6db8-49c5-47e7-98da-f044fc38fc1a@linux.dev> <1aec6dab-ed03-4ca3-8cd1-9cfbb807be10@linux.dev> Content-Language: en-US X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Sean Anderson In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT On 4/7/25 13:25, Daniel Golle wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 07:21:38PM +0200, Christian Marangi (Ansuel) wrote: >> Il giorno lun 7 apr 2025 alle ore 19:00 Sean Anderson >> > I agree that a "cells" approach would require this, but >> > >> > - There are no in-tree examples of where this is necessary >> > - I think this would be easy to add when necessary >> > >> >> There are no in-tree cause only now we are starting to support >> complex configuration with multiple PCS placed outside the MAC. >> >> I feel it's better to define a standard API for them now before >> we permit even more MAC driver to implement custom property >> and have to address tons of workaround for compatibility. > > Qualcomm's PCS driver will require offering multiple phylink_pcs by a > single device/of_node. So while it's true that there is currently no > in-tree user for that, that very user is already knocking on our doors. > > See > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=931658&state=* OK, but I still think this is quite easy to add. --Sean