Re: [net-next PATCH 3/6] net: phylink: Correctly handle PCS probe defer from PCS provider

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 06:37:19PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> OK so (I think this was also suggested in the more specific PCS patch)
> - 1. unpublish the PCS from the provider
> - 2. put down the link...
> 
> I feel point 2 is the big effort here to solve. Mainly your problem is
> the fact that phylink_major_config should not handle PROBE_DEFER and
> should always have all the expected PCS available. (returned from
> mac_select_pcs)

I'm going to do a quick reply here, because I'm on a high latency LTE
connection right now (seems Three's backhaul network for downstream is
being overloaded.)

I mad ea comment previously, and implemented it:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/E1twkqO-0006FI-Gm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Remainder too painful to try and reply to at the moment.

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