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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add RTL83xx support
  2026-06-13 11:30 · 7 replies in 7d · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] net: dsa: mt7628 embedded switch initial support
  2026-06-13 18:20 · 1 reply in 7d · Joris Vaisvila <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v10 0/2] net: sfp: extend SMBus support
  2026-06-12 14:28 · 2 replies in 7d · Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] Add support for RTL8261C_CG
  2026-06-11 03:25 · 4 replies in 7d · javen <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add RTL931x support
  2026-06-10 19:42 · 4 replies in 7d · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 0/9] Support for block device NVMEM providers
  2026-06-12 13:21 · 1 reply in 7d · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v6 00/12] net: pcs: Introduce support for fwnode PCS
  2026-06-09 15:16 · 7 replies in 7d · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: sfp: detect presence via I2C when no MOD_DEF0 GPIO
  2026-06-11 17:53 · 0 replies in 7d · Greg Patrick <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v4 00/13] net: Add ADIN1140 support
  2026-06-09 15:28 · 3 replies in 7d · Ciprian Regus <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add RTL931x support
  2026-06-09 05:29 · 4 replies in 7d · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  28 attestations (28 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-13
• Nicolai Buchwitz <hidden>
  10 attestations (8 Reviewed-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-11
• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-12
• Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-27
• Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-12
• Marek Vasut <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-09
• Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-08
• Aleksander Bajkowski <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-05
• Manuel Stocker <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-11
• Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-09

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v5 2/4] net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs
  2026-06-13 · Joris Vaisvila <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 6/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Increase MDIO timeout
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 8/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add support for RTL839x
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add c45 over c22 mitigation
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 2/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add polling documentation
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 4/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Configure hardware polling during probing
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 7/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add support for RTL838x
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next 3/8] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add page tracking
  2026-06-13 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v10 2/2] net: sfp: extend SMBus support
  2026-06-12 · Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v10 1/2] net: sfp: apply I2C adapter quirks to limit block size
  2026-06-12 · Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 6/9] net: of_net: Add of_get_nvmem_eui48() helper for EUI-48 lookup
  2026-06-12 · Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: sfp: detect presence via I2C when no MOD_DEF0 GPIO
  2026-06-11 · Greg Patrick <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v5 3/4] net: phy: realtek: add support for RTL8261C_CG
  2026-06-11 · javen <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH net-next v5 2/4] net: phy: c45: add genphy_c45_config_master_slave()
  2026-06-11 · javen <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 1/4] net: phy: c45: add genphy_c45_soft_reset()
  2026-06-11 · javen <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v5 4/4] net: phy: realtek: load firmware for RTL8261C_CG
  2026-06-11 · javen <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH net-next v3 3/5] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Make otto_emdio_read_cmd() generic
  2026-06-10 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add support for RTL931x
  2026-06-10 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add registers for high port count models
  2026-06-10 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v3 2/5] net: mdio: realtek-rtl9300: Add prefix to register field defines
  2026-06-10 · Markus Stockhausen <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next v10 3/3] net: phy: micrel: expose KSZ87xx low-loss cable tunables
  2026-06-09 · Fidelio Lawson <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 10/13] net: phy: add generic helpers for direct C45 MMD access
  2026-06-09 · Ciprian Regus <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 11/13] net: phy: microchip-t1s: use generic C45 MMD access helpers
  2026-06-09 · Ciprian Regus <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v4 12/13] net: phy: Add support for the ADIN1140 PHY
  2026-06-09 · Ciprian Regus <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v6 05/12] net: phylink: support late PCS provider attach
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v6 09/12] net: phylink: add .pcs_link_down PCS OP
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v6 04/12] net: pcs: implement Firmware node support for PCS driver
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v6 11/12] net: pcs: airoha: add PCS driver for Airoha AN7581 SoC
  2026-06-09 · Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [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>
• WARM1d [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>

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.

• STALE142d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH RFC net-next v2 1/2] net: phy: marvell: 88e1111: define gigabit features
  2026-01-01 · Josua Mayer <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] net: phy: microchip_rds_ptp: add HW timestamp configuration reporting
  2026-01-06 · Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE151d 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
• STALE124d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 5.10] net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release()
  2026-01-16 · David Nyström <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next] net: phy: micrel: Add support for lan9645x internal phy
  2026-01-23 · Jens Emil Schulz Østergaard <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE108d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v2] net: phy: micrel: Add support for lan9645x internal phy
  2026-01-30 · Jens Emil Schulz Østergaard <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE106d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net-next v3] net: phy: micrel: Add support for lan9645x internal phy
  2026-02-26 · Jens Emil Schulz Østergaard <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE100d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH net-next v2] net: phy: realtek: Add support for PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
  2026-03-04 · Kryštof Černý via B4 Relay <devnull+cleverline1mc.gmail.com@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.1.y 3/3] net: phy: fix phy_uses_state_machine()
  2026-03-27 · Rajani Kantha <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.1.y 1/3] net: phy: move phy_link_change() prior to mdio_bus_phy_may_suspend()
  2026-03-27 · Rajani Kantha <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.

• STALE208d [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net: mdio: improve reset handling in mdio_device.c
  2025-11-17 · Buday Csaba <hidden>
• STALE208d [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] net: mdio: common handling of phy device reset properties
  2025-11-17 · Buday Csaba <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH v3 net-next 2/6] net: phy: realtek: eliminate priv->phycr2 variable
  2025-11-17 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE205d [PATCH v3 net-next 6/6] net: phy: realtek: create rtl8211f_config_phy_eee() helper
  2025-11-17 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE200d [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: phy: microchip_t1s: add SQI support for LAN867x Rev.D0 PHYs
  2025-11-18 · Parthiban Veerasooran <parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com>
• STALE205d [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] net: mdio: improve reset handling in mdio_device.c
  2025-11-18 · Buday Csaba <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH net-next v3 1/3] net: mdio: move device reset functions to mdio_device.c
  2025-11-18 · Buday Csaba <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH net-next v3 2/3] net: mdio: common handling of phy device reset properties
  2025-11-18 · Buday Csaba <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH net-next 01/15] net: dsa: sja1105: let phylink help with the replay of link callbacks
  2025-11-18 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
• STALE149d [PATCH net-next 03/15] net: mdio: add driver for NXP SJA1110 100BASE-T1 embedded PHYs
  2025-11-18 · Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>