From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtpout-04.galae.net (smtpout-04.galae.net [185.171.202.116]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79F653C1418; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.171.202.116 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782718121; cv=none; b=eaUWLvebUV4UQ+rIufmXBCwrJkeg0EQ477CsHpGnwTLszJsRnw8fpZc47UT5fuBmCTZGpmP0LEtJHs77TiUNCBluxG6FXK10Y3+X7Edk2S9mZYjnZUPelug7Iz9JBmo1H8eQWqw0+kLaD2LEWzNsUaeLRb39KZky7LMjcBQPRCM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782718121; c=relaxed/simple; bh=rZvz0aou+WZ6xfcW7DezVt52N1axyhsLIrxTaxT5eWc=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=GAOH5AdmU8NCvzIgrmgwVc549bni4G56dqWUPjOc245Ychfzud6OYSwL4IjBlojobJNUFn0nRepahd+v2U+v+NQTQhLA8KloOPZa6gNMEuThIvSmW7DYv3i0FgzT4UrQpr0Y+RCtyJtiG4o1G7kVTI0juRV3Lt3JE++u6fmOr3Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bootlin.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.b=uJzRZS/e; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.171.202.116 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.b="uJzRZS/e" Received: from smtpout-01.galae.net (smtpout-01.galae.net [212.83.139.233]) by smtpout-04.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E3E8C5145A; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.galae.net (mail.galae.net [212.83.136.155]) by smtpout-01.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 684445FF96; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id 60445106F1504; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:28:24 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=dkim; t=1782718113; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:cc:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-language:in-reply-to:references; bh=rZvz0aou+WZ6xfcW7DezVt52N1axyhsLIrxTaxT5eWc=; b=uJzRZS/e5R+g0fsbl5WTvQKTKVP43DQ+Fv4j4TKDsgOU03SLdpkMV/v/dIA5Ic3OLuSXl4 jStlfqA4nT5HzgjPB5OzmeZ8UOlDgwJr2ZW1jfw9G2xQjPjZSd6mFulSBLZq8aU8LG+Y58 jvMQi1v7a26BOOnPUZHJvRVr6+7Mq56EPv//Z1knFTFGzxgb6XV7w0Y43h94fndPuac8cj n71jYXg7dbiuVaavrBCRORkBtZrSZW0aUp/s0ZRcbALbE5Zs721ShQIHjGC9SusDZsHrRR Xs9sWzc5aOHJ02GwWiC5LkR19929fMNP1ZJdo4SgYzXHPDg46qqsXYoRWbrgpA== Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:28:23 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v8 03/12] net: phylink: add phylink_release_pcs() to externally release a PCS To: Christian Marangi Cc: Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Simon Horman , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Lorenzo Bianconi , Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , Saravana Kannan , Philipp Zabel , Nathan Chancellor , Nick Desaulniers , Bill Wendling , Justin Stitt , netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev References: <20260618125752.1223-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com> <20260618125752.1223-4-ansuelsmth@gmail.com> <6a3fc312.6161eb1e.3441bb.c0de@mx.google.com> <178defc6-8e60-4b0b-b3b0-f0f2a4003b68@bootlin.com> <6a421c2d.1e0bfc4f.b2eb6.06fb@mx.google.com> From: Maxime Chevallier Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <6a421c2d.1e0bfc4f.b2eb6.06fb@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 On 6/29/26 09:18, Christian Marangi wrote: > Nobody stops from implementing custom parser in fill_available_pcs and > return a PCS pointer created directly by the MAC. (In such case late and > release won't be needed as everything is present when phylink_create is > called) Ah alright :) So my only request then would be to update the phylink porting guide to at least point to the PCS documentation you're adding to say that the select_pcs() op is deprecated : https://docs.kernel.org/networking/sfp-phylink.html#rough-guide-to-converting-a-network-driver-to-sfp-phylink Thanks, Maxime >