Re: [PATCH net-next 5/9] phy: add phy_get_rx_polarity() and phy_get_tx_polarity()

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 08:01:21PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > The proposed maintainership model is joint custody between netdev and
> > linux-phy, because of the fact that these properties can be applied to
> > Ethernet PCS blocks just as well as Generic PHY devices. I've added as
> > maintainers those from "ETHERNET PHY LIBRARY", "NETWORKING DRIVERS" and
> > "GENERIC PHY FRAMEWORK".
> 
> I dunno.. ain't no such thing as "joint custody" maintainership.
> We have to pick one tree. Given the set of Ms here, I suspect 
> the best course of action may be to bubble this up to its own tree.
> Ask Konstantin for a tree in k.org, then you can "co-post" the patches
> for review + PR link in the cover letter (e.g. how Tony from Intel
> submits their patches). This way not networking and PHY can pull
> the shared changes with stable commit IDs.

I can see how this makes some sense. If nobody has any objection, I'll
follow up to this by emailing Konstantin about a git tree for shared
infrastructure between generic PHY and networking.

> We can do out-of-sequence netdev call tomorrow if folks want to talk
> this thru (8:30am Pacific)

Not sure it's that big of a discussion topic.

> > +GENERIC PHY COMMON PROPERTIES
> > +M:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> > +M:	"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +R:	Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > +M:	Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> checkpatch nit: apparently it wants all Ms first, then all Rs.

Thanks for pointing this out.

This will probably have to be changed quite a bit in v2 if the "separate
git tree" idea is going to be implemented. I'll probably start with an
empty list and request volunteers to step up.