Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: phy: dp83869: Fix link up reporting in SGMII bridge mode

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 11:04:37AM +0200, Romain Gantois wrote:
> This raises the question of a potential race condition when reading
> mod_phy->{link, speed, duplex}. I haven't seen any kind of locking used in
> other parts of the net subsystem when reading these parameters.

Drivers access these under phydev->lock due to a callback from phylib
which will be made from the state machine which holds that lock.
This includes phylink.

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