Re: [PATCH net-next v11 00/12] net: pcs: Introduce support for fwnode PCS

[Christian Marangi]

On Sun, Aug 09, 2026 at 07:44:55PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 03:12:42PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> > This series introduce a most awaited feature that is correctly
> > provide PCS with fwnode without having to use specific export symbol
> > and additional handling of PCS in phylink.
> 
> One of Russells complaints was the phylink has too many bits of code
> for ideas which did not work out and were replaced by new ways of
> doing things.
> 
> We want .mac_select_pcs to go away, this framework should replace it.
> Please could you convert one of the exist users of .mac_select_pcs, so
> we get an idea of what that involved. If that conversion is pretty
> mechanical, i think we should have a second patchset which converts
> all the current users, and then remove support for .mac_select_pcs.
> 
> Overall i think the direction of this patchset is good.
>

Thanks for the initial check.

Maxime converted one device with this and the patch delta was small... let
me copy those patch here. (it was referenced in v9)

I think the most annoying one will be stmmac with the 3 different PCS
implementation but we already handled that in a upcoming ipq50xx driver
currently present in OpenWrt mainline.

Maybe if Maxime is O.K. I can include his patch in this series.