From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC PATCH] net: phylink: add .pcs_link_down PCS OP
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:37:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aIiITk-7WPYMzcEl@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250729082126.2261-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 10:21:23AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Permit for PCS driver to define specific operation to torn down the link
> between the MAC and the PCS.
>
> This might be needed for some PCS that reset counter or require special
> reset to correctly work if the link needs to be restored later.
>
> On phylink_link_down() call, the additional phylink_pcs_link_down() will
> be called before .mac_link_down to torn down the link.
>
> PCS driver will need to define .pcs_link_down to make use of this.
I don't accept new stuff without a user. Please provide the user as
well. Thanks.
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2025-07-29 8:21 [net-next RFC PATCH] net: phylink: add .pcs_link_down PCS OP Christian Marangi
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