Re: [PATCH net-next v9 04/10] net: phy: Create SFP phy_port before registering upstream

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Tue Apr 14 2026 - 19:46:44 EST


On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 02:37:48PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> When dealing with PHY-driven SFP, we create a phy_port representing the
> SFP bus when we know we have such a bus.

I'm missing the big picture here.

Do we have three different things represented in the topology:

SFP bus-> SFP cage-> SFP module

Andrew