netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v17 00/14] Introduce PHY listing and link

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Message-ID: <20240716101626.3d54a95d@fedora-2.home>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:16:26 +0200
From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v17 00/14] Introduce PHY listing and
 link_topology tracking

Hello Jakub,

On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:31:06 -0700
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Tue,  9 Jul 2024 08:30:23 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > This is V17 of the phy_link_topology series, aiming at improving support
> > for multiple PHYs being attached to the same MAC.
> > 
> > V17 is mostly a rebase of V16 on net-next, as the addition of new
> > features in the PSE-PD command raised a conflict on the ethtool netlink
> > spec, and patch 10 was updated :
> > 
> > 	("net: ethtool: pse-pd: Target the command to the requested PHY")
> > 
> > The new code was updated to make use of the new helpers to retrieve the
> > PHY from the ethnl request, and an error message was also updated to
> > better reflect the fact that we don't only rely on the attached PHY for
> > configuration.  
> 
> I lack the confidence to take this during the merge window, without
> Russell's acks. So Deferred, sorry :(

Understood. Is there anything I can make next time to make that series
more digestable and easy to review ? I didn't want to split the netlink
part from the core part, as just the phy_link_topology alone doesn't
make much sense for now, but it that makes the lives of reviewers
easier I could submit these separately.

Thanks,

Maxime