# Re: \[PATCH net-next v20 01/13\] phylink: Add phylink\_mac\_interrupt

- From: Maxime Chevallier \<maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com\>
- Date: 2026-11-06 10:11:34 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/11/17877222
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-usb/2026/11/17876248/t.md

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Hi,

On 11/6/26 08:21, Birger Koblitz wrote:
> Add the phylink_mac_interrupt() function to phylink, which
> passes a link-change interrupt received by the MAC to phylib.
> This function can be used by drivers which want to avoid
> polling the PHY and instead rely on an interrupt received by
> the MAC when a link-change happens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Birger Koblitz <redacted>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>

> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/phylink.h   |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
> index e885da1c28311a12a869e29ceb3c96886f31adc6..a87eaa2f3db5bef8fe56e12b90375bdb7f9c52e7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
> @@ -1616,6 +1616,26 @@ static bool phylink_link_is_up(struct phylink *pl)
>  	return pl->netdev ? netif_carrier_ok(pl->netdev) : pl->old_link_state;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * phylink_mac_interrupt() - wrapper for phy_mac_interrupt()
> + * @pl: a pointer to a &struct phylink returned from phylink_create()
> + *
> + * Passes a link-change interrupt received by the MAC to phylib.
> + * This function may be called in interrupt context, and therefore cannot take
> + * a mutex. However, it is safe to assume that the reference to phy does not
> + * disappear during the call, as only an SFP module may be unplugged to make a
> + * PHY disappear. SFP modules however do not support interrupts.

I don't see the relevance of PHY SFP supporting interrupts or not here,
this just re-triggers the PHY state machine. Looks like a comment to
make sashiko happy.

Anyways, I'm OK with the approach, maybe reword that comment if you need
to respin,

Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>

Maxime

> + */
> +void phylink_mac_interrupt(struct phylink *pl)
> +{
> +	struct phy_device *phy;
> +
> +	phy = pl->phydev;
> +	if (phy)
> +		phy_mac_interrupt(phy);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phylink_mac_interrupt);
> +
>  static void phylink_resolve(struct work_struct *w)
>  {
>  	struct phylink *pl = container_of(w, struct phylink, resolve);
> diff --git a/include/linux/phylink.h b/include/linux/phylink.h
> index 3a88a69882a610afb868b55df6f6e77aea918649..a7b6294cc4a075bd2aaa43ed6484de17a6cb88b1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/phylink.h
> +++ b/include/linux/phylink.h
> @@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ int phylink_ethtool_set_eee(struct phylink *link, struct ethtool_keee *eee);
>  int phylink_mii_ioctl(struct phylink *, struct ifreq *, int);
>  int phylink_speed_down(struct phylink *pl, bool sync);
>  int phylink_speed_up(struct phylink *pl);
> +void phylink_mac_interrupt(struct phylink *pl);
>  
>  #define phylink_zero(bm) \
>  	bitmap_zero(bm, __ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_MASK_NBITS)
> 

```