From: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 01/16] dt-bindings: net: Add pcs property
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 12:18:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4a3b38e-db3c-0cca-96ff-1d11e95f4b84@seco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVwdWIJiV1nkJ4A3@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On 10/5/21 5:39 AM, 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".
>
> We actually already have LX2160A platforms using "pcs-handle", (see
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl,qoriq-mc-dpmac.yaml) so we're
> in danger of ending up with multiple property names describing the same
> thing.
>
Either way is fine by me.
--Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-05 16:19 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 [this message]
2021-10-12 13:16 ` Rob Herring
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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