ethernet phy library · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
• M Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
• R Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-phydev
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio*
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ar803x.yaml
• F Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst
• F Documentation/networking/phy.rst
• F drivers/net/mdio/
• F drivers/net/mdio/acpi_mdio.c
• F drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c
• F drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c
• F drivers/net/pcs/
• F drivers/net/phy/
• F include/dt-bindings/net/qca-ar803x.h
• F include/linux/*mdio*.h
• F include/linux/linkmode.h
• F include/linux/mdio/*.h
• F include/linux/mii.h
• F include/linux/of_net.h
• F include/linux/phy.h
• F include/linux/phy_fixed.h
• F include/linux/phy_link_topology.h
• F include/linux/phylib_stubs.h
• F include/linux/platform_data/mdio-bcm-unimac.h
• F include/net/phy/
• F include/trace/events/mdio.h
• F include/uapi/linux/mdio.h
• F include/uapi/linux/mii.h
• F net/core/of_net.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-18

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-arm-kernel (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH net-next v8 05/12] net: phylink: support late PCS provider attach
  2026-06-18 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH net-next v8 04/12] net: pcs: implement Firmware node support for PCS driver
  2026-06-18 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH net-next v8 02/12] net: phylink: introduce internal phylink PCS handling
  2026-06-18 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH net-next v8 09/12] net: phylink: add .pcs_link_down PCS OP
  2026-06-18 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH net-next v8 01/12] net: phylink: keep and use MAC supported_interfaces in phylink struct
  2026-06-18 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH net-next v8 03/12] net: phylink: add phylink_release_pcs() to externally release a PCS
  2026-06-18 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v7 09/12] net: phylink: add .pcs_link_down PCS OP
  2026-06-15 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v7 04/12] net: pcs: implement Firmware node support for PCS driver
  2026-06-15 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v7 02/12] net: phylink: introduce internal phylink PCS handling
  2026-06-15 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v7 03/12] net: phylink: add phylink_release_pcs() to externally release a PCS
  2026-06-15 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v7 05/12] net: phylink: support late PCS provider attach
  2026-06-15 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v7 01/12] net: phylink: keep and use MAC supported_interfaces in phylink struct
  2026-06-15 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next v6 05/12] net: phylink: support late PCS provider attach
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next v6 09/12] net: phylink: add .pcs_link_down PCS OP
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next v6 04/12] net: pcs: implement Firmware node support for PCS driver
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next v6 03/12] net: phylink: add phylink_release_pcs() to externally release a PCS
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next v6 01/12] net: phylink: keep and use MAC supported_interfaces in phylink struct
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH net-next v6 02/12] net: phylink: introduce internal phylink PCS handling
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 05/14] net: pcs: pcs-xpcs: select operating mode for 10G-baseR capable PCS
  2026-06-05 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 04/14] net: pcs: xpcs: re-order xpcs_pre_config() to update after the reset
  2026-06-05 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 03/14] net: pcs: pcs-xpcs-regmap: support XPCS memory-mapped MDIO bus via regmap
  2026-06-05 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next v2 02/14] net: phy: qcom: qca808x: Add regulator management
  2026-06-05 · Alex Elder <hidden>
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [net v2] net: pcs: pcs-mtk-lynxi: fix bpi-r3 serdes configuration
  2026-05-26 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v5 6/6] net: phy: air_an8801: ensure maximum available speed link use
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v5 5/6] net: phy: Introduce Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 3/6] net: phy: air_phy_lib: Factorize BuckPBus register accessors
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 4/6] net: phy: Rename Airoha common BuckPBus register accessors
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 2/6] net: phy: Add Airoha phy library for shared code
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v4 6/6] net: phy: air_an8801: ensure maximum available speed link use
  2026-05-21 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD26d [PATCH net-next v4 5/6] net: phy: Introduce Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY driver
  2026-05-21 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE162d REVIEWED: 10 (8M) [PATCH net-next v22 14/14] Documentation: networking: Document the phy_port infrastructure
  2026-01-08 · Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE78d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.1.y 2/3] net: phy: allow MDIO bus PM ops to start/stop state machine for phylink-controlled PHY
  2026-03-27 · Rajani Kantha <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 4/6] net: phy: Rename Airoha common BuckPBus register accessors
  2026-05-21 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] net: phy: Add Airoha phy library for shared code
  2026-05-21 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 3/6] net: phy: air_phy_lib: Factorize BuckPBus register accessors
  2026-05-21 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 2/6] net: phy: Add Airoha phy library for shared code
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 3/6] net: phy: air_phy_lib: Factorize BuckPBus register accessors
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD26d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 4/6] net: phy: Rename Airoha common BuckPBus register accessors
  2026-05-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD27d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [net v2] net: pcs: pcs-mtk-lynxi: fix bpi-r3 serdes configuration
  2026-05-26 · Frank Wunderlich <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE169d [PATCH v2 net-next 07/10] net: phy: air_en8811h: deprecate "airoha,pnswap-rx" and "airoha,pnswap-tx"
  2026-01-03 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE169d [PATCH v2 net-next 09/10] net: pcs: pcs-mtk-lynxi: pass SGMIISYS OF node to PCS
  2026-01-03 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE162d [PATCH 21/36] net: phy: mscc: macsec: Use new AES library API
  2026-01-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE162d [PATCH 35/36] lib/crypto: aes: Drop "_new" suffix from en/decryption functions
  2026-01-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• STALE119d [PATCH v3 net-next 07/10] net: phy: air_en8811h: deprecate "airoha,pnswap-rx" and "airoha,pnswap-tx"
  2026-01-11 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE119d [PATCH v3 net-next 09/10] net: pcs: pcs-mtk-lynxi: pass SGMIISYS OF node to PCS
  2026-01-11 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• COLD22d [PATCH 04/14] net: mdio: drop unneeded dependency on OF_GPIO
  2026-03-04 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH v2 2/9] net: mdio: drop unneeded dependency on OF_GPIO
  2026-03-16 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net: phy: Add Airoha phy library for shared code
  2026-03-26 · Louis-Alexis Eyraud <hidden>
• COLD50d [net-next RFC PATCH v5 01/10] net: phylink: keep and use MAC supported_interfaces in phylink struct
  2026-05-05 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>