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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 15:15:00 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Cc: Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>, Andrew Lunn
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add USB Ethernet controller (LAN7500) node in
 VAR-SOM-OM44 devicetree
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:33:26 +0200 Nicolai Buchwitz wrote:
> On 3.4.2026 22:18, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:02:22 +0200 Thomas Richard wrote:  
> >> The goal of this series is to add the USB Ethernet controller node in 
> >> the
> >> VAR-SOM-OM44 devicetree in order to allow the bootloader to patch the
> >> devicetree and pass a MAC address to the smsc75xx driver. This was 
> >> also a
> >> good opportunity to create the schema file for LAN75XX devices.  
> > 
> > But there's no driver for it yet, right?
> > IDK what the best practices are here, just unusual to see a schema
> > without a driver, is all.  
> 
> The smsc75xx driver has been in the tree since 2010 (d0cad871703b) and
> already reads local-mac-address/mac-address from devicetree via
> platform_get_ethdev_address() in smsc75xx_init_mac_address(), so the
> binding should be covered on the driver side.

Curious. So USB core can tie the right USB device to the DT / OF
information automatically? I was thrown by the fact that there
are no matches on the compatibles anywhere in the kernel.