[PATCH net-next v7 05/12] net: phylink: support late PCS provider attach

[Maxime Chevallier]

Hi Christian,

On 6/15/26 14:29, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Add support for late PCS provider attachment to a phylink instance.
> This works by creating a global notifier for the PCS provider and
> making each phylink instance that makes use of fwnode subscribe to
> this notifier.
> 
> The PCS notifier will emit the event FWNODE_PCS_PROVIDER_ADD every time
> a new PCS provider is added.
> 
> phylink will then react to this event and will call the new function
> fwnode_phylink_pcs_get_from_fwnode() that will check if the PCS fwnode
> provided by the event is present in the pcs-handle property of the
> phylink instance.
> 
> If a related PCS is found, then such PCS is added to the phylink
> instance PCS list.
> 
> Then we link the PCS to the phylink instance and we refresh the supported
> interfaces of the phylink instance.
> 
> Finally we check if we are in a major_config_failed scenario and trigger
> an interface reconfiguration in the next phylink resolve.
> 
> In the example scenario where the link was previously torn down due to
> removal of PCS, the link will be established again as the PCS came back
> and is now available to phylink.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>
> ---

[...]

> @@ -2151,6 +2204,10 @@ void phylink_destroy(struct phylink *pl)
>  	if (pl->link_gpio)
>  		gpiod_put(pl->link_gpio);
>  
> +	/* Unregister notifier for late PCS attach */
> +	if (pl->fwnode_pcs_nb.notifier_call)
> +		unregister_fwnode_pcs_notifier(&pl->fwnode_pcs_nb);

I wanted to try this out, but I get :

drivers/net/phy/phylink.c:2218:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘unregister_fwnode_pcs_notifier’; did you mean ‘register_fwnode_pcs_notifier’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 2218 |                 unregister_fwnode_pcs_notifier(&pl->fwnode_pcs_nb);
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                 register_fwnode_pcs_notifier

I guess you either need to stub this, or there's a missing Kconfig
dependency somewhere

Maxime