Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v8 03/12] net: phylink: add phylink_release_pcs() to externally release a PCS

[Maxime Chevallier]

On 6/29/26 09:18, Christian Marangi wrote:

> Nobody stops from implementing custom parser in fill_available_pcs and
> return a PCS pointer created directly by the MAC. (In such case late and
> release won't be needed as everything is present when phylink_create is
> called)

Ah alright :)

So my only request then would be to update the phylink porting guide to at
least point to the PCS documentation you're adding to say that the select_pcs()
op is deprecated :

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/sfp-phylink.html#rough-guide-to-converting-a-network-driver-to-sfp-phylink

Thanks,

Maxime

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