netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] r8169: add support for reading over-temp threshold

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Message-ID: <20250106153032.7def28fc@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 15:30:32 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, David Miller
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] r8169: add support for reading over-temp
 threshold

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 19:05:13 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Add support for reading the over-temp threshold. If the chip temperature
> exceeds this value, the chip will reduce the speed to 1Gbps (by disabling
> 2.5G/5G advertisement and triggering a renegotiation).

If there is a v2 -- please make sure hwmon folks are CCed.
Looks like get_maintainers doesn't flag it, but since we're charting 
a new territory for networking a broader audience may be quite useful.