Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: phy: rockchip,inno-usb2phy: add port property

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 08:09:14PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
> USB connectors like to have OF graph connections to high-speed related
> nodes to do various things. In the case of the RK3576, we can make use
> of a port in the usb2 PHY to detect whether the OTG controller is
> connected to a type C port and apply some special behaviour accordingly.
> 
> The usefulness of having different bits of a fully functioning USB stack
> point to each other is more general though, and not constrained to
> RK3576 at all, even for this use-case.
> 
> Add a port property to the binding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip,inno-usb2phy.yaml | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip,inno-usb2phy.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip,inno-usb2phy.yaml
> index 6a7ef556414cebad63c10de754778f84fd4486ee..3a662bfc353250a8ad9386ebb5575d1e84c1b5ba 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip,inno-usb2phy.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip,inno-usb2phy.yaml
> @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ properties:
>        When set the driver will request its phandle as one companion-grf
>        for some special SoCs (e.g rv1108).
>  
> +  port:
> +    $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/port
> +    description:
> +      A port node to link the PHY to a USB connector's "high-speed" port.

I don't think this is correct. The HS port of the connector goes to the 
controller. The controller has the link to the phy.

If the PHY is also what handles USB-C muxing or orientation switching, 
then it might have ports, but then it needs input and output ports.

Rob