On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 11:42:53PM GMT, Serge Semin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 10:21:07AM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 09:56:04PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote: > > > Hi Russell > > > ... > > > I guessed that you would dig your heals in over this, and want to do > > it your own way despite all the points I raised against your patch > > series on my previous posting arguing against much of this. > > > > So, at this point I give up with this patch series - clearly there is > > no room for discussion about the way forward, and you want to do it > > your way no matter what. > > I actually thought that in general the approach implemented in my > patches didn't meet much dislikes from your side. Just several notes > which could be easily fixed in the next revisions. > > Anyway thanks for understanding. I'll wait for your series to be > merged in. Then I'll submit my patch set based on top of it (of course > taking into account all the notes raised by you back then). > Hmmm, I'll poke the bears :) Any chance this series will be rebased and sent out again? I really liked the direction of this and it seems a waste to end it at a stalemate here despite some differing opinions on the design and possible future changes. I think we're all in agreement that stmmac's current PCS usage behind phylink's back is not good, and this is a massive improvement. Thanks, Andrew