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)

• DORMANTno replies Linux 7.1.5
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Linux 6.18.40
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d Linux 6.12.97
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Linux 6.6.145
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d Linux 6.1.178
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 6.18 0000/1611] 6.18.40-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 18:25 · 3 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 7.1 0000/2077] 7.1.5-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 19:13 · 3 replies in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 6.1 0000/1067] 6.1.178-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 21:36 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 6.6 0000/1266] 6.6.145-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 20:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6.12 0000/1276] 6.12.97-rc1 review
  2026-07-21 19:45 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
  7 attestations (7 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Larysa Zaremba <hidden>
  5 attestations (5 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-21
• Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-07-17

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d Re: Linux 7.1.5
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.40
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.97
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM2d Re: Linux 6.6.145
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.178
  2026-07-24 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 6.1 0656/1067] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 6.6 0811/1266] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 6.12 0706/1276] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 7.1 1277/2077] net: phy: realtek: Clear MDIO_AN_10GBT_CTRL_ADV10G bit
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 6.18 1069/1611] net: mdio: select REGMAP_MMIO instead of depending on it
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 6.18 0970/1611] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.18 0931/1611] net: phy: realtek: Clear MDIO_AN_10GBT_CTRL_ADV10G bit
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 7.1 1481/2077] net: mdio: select REGMAP_MMIO instead of depending on it
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 7.1 1331/2077] net: phy: sfp: free mii_bus in sfp_i2c_mdiobus_destroy
  2026-07-21 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net] net: pcs: xpcs: fix SGMII state reading
  2026-07-17 · Coia Prant <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH net-next v13 01/10] net: phy: aquantia: fix system interface type not updated in forced mode
  2026-07-13 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH] net: pcs: xpcs-plat: fix runtime PM initialization
  2026-07-04 · Coia Prant <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] fix: net: phy: phy_sfp_probe: fix kref leak when phy_setup_sfp_port fails after sfp_bus_add_upstream
  2026-06-26 · WenTao Liang <hidden>
• COLD30d [PATCH] fix: net: mdio: of_phy_register_fixed_link: fix phy_device reference leak via discarded pointer
  2026-06-26 · WenTao Liang <hidden>
• COLD37d Re: Linux 7.0.13
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.6.143
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.36
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.94
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD37d Re: Linux 6.1.176
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 5.15.210
  2026-06-19 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 5.15 053/411] phy: mscc: Use PHY_ID_MATCH_EXACT for VSC8584, VSC8582, VSC8575, VSC856X
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 5.15 052/411] phy: mscc: Use PHY_ID_MATCH_VENDOR to minimize PHY ID table
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH 6.1 078/522] phy: mscc: Use PHY_ID_MATCH_EXACT for VSC8584, VSC8582, VSC8575, VSC856X
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD23d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 6.1 077/522] phy: mscc: Use PHY_ID_MATCH_VENDOR to minimize PHY ID table
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6 266/452] net: phy: clean the sfp upstream if phy probing fails
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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.

• STALE191d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 6.6.y 2/3] net: phy: allow MDIO bus PM ops to start/stop state machine for phylink-controlled PHY
  2026-01-16 · Rajani Kantha <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE191d REVIEWED: 6 (6M) [PATCH 6.6.y 3/3] net: phy: fix phy_uses_state_machine()
  2026-01-16 · Rajani Kantha <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 6.6.y 1/3] net: phy: move phy_link_change() prior to mdio_bus_phy_may_suspend()
  2026-01-16 · Rajani Kantha <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE167d 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
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 6.6.y] net: sfp: Fix quirk for Ubiquiti U-Fiber Instant SFP module
  2026-02-10 · Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 6 (5M) [PATCH 6.1.y] net: sfp: Fix quirk for Ubiquiti U-Fiber Instant SFP module
  2026-02-10 · Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
  2026-03-09 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree
  2026-03-09 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
  2026-03-09 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE139d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: phy: register phy led_triggers during probe to avoid" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
  2026-03-09 · <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> · 1 Tested-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.

• STALE202d [PATCH 6.18 062/430] net: phy: realtek: create rtl8211f_config_phy_eee() helper
  2025-12-29 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE202d [PATCH 6.18 058/430] net: phy: realtek: eliminate priv->phycr2 variable
  2025-12-29 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.3
  2026-01-02 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE199d [PATCH 6.18 051/312] net: mdio: rtl9300: use scoped for loops
  2026-01-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.64
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.18.4
  2026-01-08 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.1.160
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE196d Re: Linux 6.6.120
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies Re: Linux 6.12.65
  2026-01-11 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE188d [PATCH 6.18 099/181] net: phy: mxl-86110: Add power management and soft reset support
  2026-01-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>