linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/4] net: phy: mxl-gpy: broken interrupt fixes

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Message-ID: <Y4u0Z/25/Yierh0H@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sat, 3 Dec 2022 21:41:11 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Cc:     Xu Liang <lxu@...linear.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/4] net: phy: mxl-gpy: broken interrupt fixes

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 04:12:00PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> The GPY215 has a broken interrupt pin. This patch series tries to
> workaround that and because in general that is not possible, disables the
> interrupts by default and falls back to polling mode. There is an opt-in
> via the devicetree.
> 
> net vs net-next: I'm not sure. No one seems to have noticed it so far.

I guess you could fail to notice 2ms of interrupt storm, if it only
happens on link down. But we should probably fix it. So please post
the first patch to net with a Fixes: tag. The rest to net-next.

    Andrew