Re: [net-next PATCH v2 0/3] Introduce new APIs to support phylink and phy layers

From: Calvin Johnson
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 08:49:24 EST


Hi Rafael,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:26:12PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:38 AM Calvin Johnson
> <calvin.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
<snip>
> > > So, yes, there's another driver using it, but the ACPI folk probably
> > > never got a look-in on that instance. Even if they had been copied,
> > > the patch description is probably sufficiently poor that they wouldn't
> > > have read the patch.
> > >
> > > I'd say there's questions over whether ACPI people will find this an
> > > acceptable approach.
> > >
> > > Given that your patch moves this from one driver to a subsystem thing,
> > > it needs to be ratified by ACPI people, because it's effectively
> > > becoming a standardised way to represent a PHY in ACPI.
> >
> > How can we get attention/response from ACPI people?
>
> This is in my queue, but the processing of this has been slow for a
> while, sorry about that.
>
> If you have a new version of the series, please submit it, otherwise
> ping me in a couple of days if I don't respond to the patches in the
> meantime.

I've posted v3 of the patchset. Can you please review?

Thanks
Calvin