netdev - Re: [PATCH net] r8169: remove redundant hwmon support

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Message-ID: <8e4c02b1-ef45-4532-8a08-b6836208c8e1@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:38:31 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: remove redundant hwmon support

On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 11:29:09PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> The temperature sensor is actually part of the integrated PHY and available
> also on the standalone versions of the PHY. Therefore hwmon support will
> be added to the Realtek PHY driver and can be removed here.
> Fixes: 1ffcc8d41306 ("r8169: add support for the temperature sensor being available from RTL8125B")

So this patch is for net, because 1ffcc8d41306 is in

v6.13-rc1
v6.13-rc2
v6.13-rc3
v6.13-rc4
v6.13-rc5

but not a released kernel. So there are no ABI issues with removing it
from the MAC driver and putting it in the PHY driver where it belongs.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew