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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 07:34:32 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 01/13] net: phy: Introduce ethernet link
 topology representation
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 10:29:18 +0100 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> I'll give it a try, it could be doable to try to keep the index for
> _some_ PHYs. I had a first try at this in the very first iteration, but
> that was lost when converting to xarray for the index management. Since
> the phy_device keeps track of its own index, we can try to re-use it,
> but I can see it becoming difficult if we destroy the topology when all
> PHYs are detached (after ndo_close).

What I was thinking is if phy already has phyindex, and that index is
unused in the xarray of netdev in question - try to use that phyindex
instead of allocating a new one?
IDK if phys can move between netdevs, or get freed/recreated
automatically - otherwise it should work? (If user unbinds and rebinds
the PHY driver for instance that's their fault, we can renumber).