From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] net: phy: Clear link-specific data on link down
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:54:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250821175414.291ccc95@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250818121159.2904967-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:11:59 +0200 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> When a network interface is brought down, the associated PHY is stopped.
> However, several link-specific parameters within the phy_device struct
> are not cleared. This leads to userspace tools like ethtool reporting
> stale information from the last active connection, which is misleading
> as the link is no longer active.
Makes sense but unless you can point at a commit which brought this
behavior in I'm slightly worried about regressions. Not that I can
think of an exact scenario..
Could you please repost for net-next and let's see if we can attract
any PHY maintainer acks?
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pw-bot: cr
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2025-08-18 12:11 [PATCH net v1 1/1] net: phy: Clear link-specific data on link down Oleksij Rempel
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