[PATCH net-next] net: stmmac: move XPCS lifetime management to platform drivers

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>:

On Tue,  6 Oct 2026 06:17:49 +0800 you wrote:
> The current XPCS creation logic in stmmac_pcs_setup() is problematic
> for several reasons.
> 
> First, if a device tree specifies a "pcs-handle" but no select_pcs()
> callback is provided by the platform driver, the created XPCS cannot be
> used by phylink for PCS operations. The framework requires select_pcs()
> to return the PCS to the core, so the pcs-handle property becomes
> effectively useless for link management without the matching callback.
> The XPCS is still consulted by stmmac_phylink_setup() and
> stmmac_init_phy(), which makes the configuration silently half-working
> rather than clearly broken.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] net: stmmac: move XPCS lifetime management to platform drivers
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/f91afd7f7133

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