On 6/29/26 09:18, Christian Marangi wrote:

Nobody stops from implementing custom parser in fill_available_pcs and
return a PCS pointer created directly by the MAC. (In such case late and
release won't be needed as everything is present when phylink_create is
called)

Ah alright :)

So my only request then would be to update the phylink porting guide to at
least point to the PCS documentation you're adding to say that the select_pcs()
op is deprecated :

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/sfp-phylink.html#rough-guide-to-converting-a-network-driver-to-sfp-phylink

Thanks,

Maxime