Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add USB Ethernet controller (LAN7500) node in VAR-SOM-OM44 devicetree

Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-04-03T20:33:32Z

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.