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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:49:17 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Qingfang DENG <dqfext@...il.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phylink: allow RGMII/RTBI in-band status

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 03:26:25PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:26:06 +0800 Qingfang DENG wrote:
> > As per RGMII specification v2.0, section 3.4.1, RGMII/RTBI has an
> > optional in-band status feature where the PHY's link status, speed and
> > duplex mode can be passed to the MAC.
> > Allow RGMII/RTBI to use in-band status.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9525ae83959b ("phylink: add phylink infrastructure")
> > Signed-off-by: Qingfang DENG <dqfext@...il.com>
> 
> Russell, PHY folks, any judgment on this one?

It looks fine to me, thanks for the reminder.

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

> Qingfang is there a platform which require RGMII to be supported 
> in upstream LTS branches? If there isn't you should re-target 
> the patch at net-next and drop the Fixes tag. Not implementing
> the entire spec is not considered a bug. Please clarify this
> in the commit message.

I agree - clarification is required.

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