Hello PHY maintainers,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 05:21:03PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:

This contains a number of changes deferred from part 1 (patches 1-6):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-phy/20251125114847.804961-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/ (local)

They are reworked in ways detailed in their individual change logs.

I have a special request to linux-phy maintainers: after merging, please
provide a stable branch/tag of this plus part 1, that can be pulled into
netdev. It is needed because phy_exit() calls from consumers would
compile but would cause a functionally broken link, so we need a linear
git history to avoid (temporary) regressions.

Given how close to the merge window we are, I am dropping my special
request for a stable tag. But can you please take a look at this until
the merge window opens? It will simplify further development to have it
for v6.20 (or whatever next release number will be).