Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: stmmac: add physical port identification support

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 17:55:19 +0100

On 04/12/2025 17:40, John Madieu wrote:
> This series adds physical port identification support to the stmmac driver,
> enabling userspace to query hardware-stable identifiers for network interfaces
> via ndo_get_phys_port_id() and ndo_get_phys_port_name().
> 
> On systems with multiple ethernet controllers sharing the same driver,
> physical port identification provides stable identifiers that persist
> across reboots and are independent of interface enumeration order.
> This is particularly useful for predictable network interface naming
> and for correlating interfaces with physical connectors.
> 
> The implementation follows a two-tier approach:
> 

Please slow down. You sent three copies of the same.

Best regards,
Krzysztof