Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/3] dt-bindings: net: wiznet,w5100: add link-gpios

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026, at 10:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 10/08/2026 10:12, Arthur Crépin Leblond wrote:
>> 
>> We use this line to detect a link change but don't read its value in
>> the interrupt handler, we read the i2c PHYCFGR register to get the
>> link status.
>
> I know, but won't you have soon the same problem with active? Otherwise
> are you going to keep polling for the active link, since it is not
> reported through the main interrupt?

I don't see how we'd ever want to report 'active' state back to
the kernel, this just means it's either receiving or transmitting,
and the kernel already knows when a data transfer happened
because it either started sending or it receives an interrupt for
a received frame.

      Arnd