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From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 01/16] dt-bindings: net: Add pcs property
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:16:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YWWKuhn4FfgbcqO/@robh.at.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVwdWIJiV1nkJ4A3@shell.armlinux.org.uk>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:39:36AM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:15:12PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> > Add a property for associating PCS devices with ethernet controllers.
> > Because PCS has no generic analogue like PHY, I have left off the
> > -handle suffix.
> 
> For PHYs, we used to have phy and phy-device as property names, but the
> modern name is "phy-handle". I think we should do the same here, so I
> would suggest using "pcs-handle".

On 1G and up ethernet, we have 2 PHYs. There's the external (typically) 
ethernet PHY which is what the above properties are for. Then there's 
the on-chip serdes PHY similar to SATA, PCIe, etc. which includes the 
PCS part. For this part, we should use the generic PHY binding. I think 
we already have bindings doing that.

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-12 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-04 19:15 [RFC net-next PATCH 00/16] Add support for Xilinx PCS Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 01/16] dt-bindings: net: Add pcs property Sean Anderson
2021-10-05  9:39   ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 16:18     ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-12 13:16     ` Rob Herring [this message]
2021-10-12 16:18       ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-12 16:44         ` Rob Herring
2021-10-12 17:01           ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 02/16] dt-bindings: net: Add binding for Xilinx PCS Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 12:26   ` Rob Herring

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