Re: [PATCH net-next v8 1/7] net: pse-pd: add notifier chain for controller lifecycle events

[Kory Maincent]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:42:13 +0200, Carlo Szelinsky <github@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Introduce a blocking notifier chain that allows other subsystems to be
> informed when a PSE controller is registered or unregistered, and
> provide pse_register_notifier() / pse_unregister_notifier() as the
> subscriber interface.
> 
> A follow-up change uses this to let the phy subsystem own the
> phydev->psec lifecycle directly, decoupling PSE lookup from
> fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy() and removing the probe-time
> -EPROBE_DEFER coupling that currently exists between mdio, phy and
> pse-pd when the PSE controller driver is modular.
> 
> [...]

Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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