From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05524287268; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768315577; cv=none; b=i7Klcgcs6n5yD83GN3MOhfbyNj+H+u7VhoXWyAaoZD851Nlbx+0gJZ++Z57+1T3o6222QcHzvRT1VcGFOACPnBXn6TnlRuOjkPFTHg1GPIx0/opJ0S2ymTvBKimUfx4OldR/j4sa/k10FfVAc3YFp7BDoiZi16wN6drpyhw22Vw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768315577; c=relaxed/simple; bh=cEyiVLjNwfdDXJ0451AwNlqy8+a2Ag+lY1jlX6JLTDE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ifj+xwkPaGyz6CDpifyE/fwX1ZjWWM6k3rVlR88UjZNnw41L4VeVeDy/9UDRUj4T3xBX0ADV3aebjLAYJYtu2UvmrwltE7oXYEPVXsDMB7abRJ0jUSVYaeBLGyQvhhcft6wBsS+syKiEHaVXA+OWb0hj3OHuxbZtO4toGX1T7Ew= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=k1UJICsW; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="k1UJICsW" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68BD9C116C6; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:46:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1768315576; bh=cEyiVLjNwfdDXJ0451AwNlqy8+a2Ag+lY1jlX6JLTDE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=k1UJICsWnKR2goQAsuExFImjT+eFEgpQjbCn0i5tvA/k95KQgHuEfHWabfCo+6Db6 9svQn2BaVk+2sQ6ujwqRGONZITsj+220A1aY4SwFzU5YAcBAxC+GywH7gTGuuc1B+4 tiKFkQ7kxBF3i9wBtnNadL9pSMYwCecxMURmjbVijmuChN4/9GnWBP2lem64Lb8qF0 hhF+fEfxqHVM+lNuqC/SRooItfr1lUEujnaArVkqu1CKMAP14hyEyPhFjku9KRqJxk lTgv8gv+OOqwo5FezVP1Kg/P7NzSojA5ovnHWZBE6s3w71SMHflg38zqdsUUO/+0Ps bBkd5y2nQBz8A== Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:46:14 -0600 From: "Rob Herring (Arm)" To: Maxime Chevallier Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Oleksij Rempel , Antoine Tenart , Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= , =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ry?= Maincent , Herve Codina , Jakub Kicinski , Christophe Leroy , mwojtas@chromium.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Romain Gantois , Dimitri Fedrau , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, Florian Fainelli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=F2?= Veronese , thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Andrew Lunn , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Heiner Kallweit , Eric Dumazet , Conor Dooley , Daniel Golle , Tariq Toukan , Simon Horman , Vladimir Oltean Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v22 01/14] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description Message-ID: <176831557374.3740779.1775436338458125748.robh@kernel.org> References: <20260108080041.553250-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> <20260108080041.553250-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260108080041.553250-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:00:26 +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote: > The ability to describe the physical ports of Ethernet devices is useful > to describe multi-port devices, as well as to remove any ambiguity with > regard to the nature of the port. > > Moreover, describing ports allows for a better description of features > that are tied to connectors, such as PoE through the PSE-PD devices. > > Introduce a binding to allow describing the ports, for now with 2 > attributes : > > - The number of pairs, which is a quite generic property that allows > differentating between multiple similar technologies such as BaseT1 > and "regular" BaseT (which usually means BaseT4). > > - The media that can be used on that port, such as BaseT for Twisted > Copper, BaseC for coax copper, BaseS/L for Fiber, BaseK for backplane > ethernet, etc. This allows defining the nature of the port, and > therefore avoids the need for vendor-specific properties such as > "micrel,fiber-mode" or "ti,fiber-mode". > > The port description lives in its own file, as it is intended in the > future to allow describing the ports for phy-less devices. > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier > --- > .../bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml | 56 +++++++++++++++++++ > .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 ++++++ > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm)