On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 07:20:08PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > I was asking this question myself and then came to this: > > Converting driver to phylink makes separating different macs easier as > > this driver is splitted between staging and arch/mips/cavium-octeon/executive/ > > However I'll provide changes spotted previously as separate preparational > > patches. Would that work for you? > > Is you end goal to get this out of staging? phylib vs phylink is not a > reason to keep it in staging. > > It just seems odd to be adding new features to a staging driver. As a > bit of a "carrot and stick" maybe we should say you cannot add new > features until it is ready to move out of staging? We already have that rule. But I don't know anything about phy vs phylink... regards, dan carpenter