Re: [PATCH net-next v15 01/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description

Andrew Lunn
2025-11-11T03:34:20Z

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 10:47:26AM +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 lanes, which is a quite generic property that allows
> differentating between multiple similar technologies such as BaseT1
> and "regular" BaseT (which usually means BaseT4).

You still use lanes here, but the implementation has moved on to
pairs.

Please add my Reviewed-by when you fix this.

Andrew