Re: [PATCH 0/4] Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] staging: octeon: Clean up PHY interfaces and fix race conditions

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Sun Nov 08 2026 - 08:55:30 EST


On Sat, Nov 07, 2026 at 08:07:54PM -0600, Oscar Alejandro Sánchez Lucero via B4 Relay wrote:
> This series provides a comprehensive clean-up, documentation alignment, and
> critical bug fixes for the Cavium Octeon staging ethernet PHY interfaces
> (SGMII, MDIO, RGMII, and SPI).
>
> - v2: Consolidated the individual floating patches into a single
> well-ordered patch series as requested by the maintainer.

Nope, you did not do that at all.

> - Investigation: Patches were identified through manual code analysis of the
> staging driver directory, inspecting resource lifetimes on initialization
> routines, checking error rollback pathways, and reviewing compliance with
> kernel-doc scripting definitions.
> - Testing: All patches in this series were successfully verified and built
> via cross-compilation for the MIPS architecture using the mips64-linux-gnu-
> toolchain with explicit W=1 compilation flags, ensuring zero compilation
> warnings or errors. Style formatting was audited via scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict.

Sorry, I can't take any of these patches from you for these obvious
reasons. Please go read:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/2026080354-skater-urgent-31b2@gregkh