netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] net: phylink: Fix issue w/ BMC link flap

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Message-ID: <20250422165114.23a36b01@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:51:14 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Alexander Duyck
 <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, hkallweit1@...il.com,
 davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] net: phylink: Fix issue w/ BMC link flap

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:13:43 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Should one host have control, or should the BMC have control? I don't
> > actually know what you're talking about w.r.t. DSP0222 or whatever it
> > was, nor NC-SI - I don't have these documents.  
> 
> I gave a reference to it a few email back in the conversation:
> 
> https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0222_1.2.0.pdf
> 
> Linux has an implementation of the protocol in net/nsci

But to be clear the implementation is for when Linux runs as the BMC.
It does not interact in any way with the host AFAIU.