Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] dt-bindings: net: ti,rpmsg-eth: Add DT binding for RPMSG ETH

MD Danish Anwar
2025-09-03T07:44:40Z

Hi Krzysztof,

On 03/09/25 12:48 pm, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 02:37:39PM +0530, MD Danish Anwar wrote:
>> Add device tree binding documentation for Texas Instruments RPMsg Ethernet
>> channels. This binding describes the shared memory communication interface
>> between host processor and a remote processor for Ethernet packet exchange.
>>
>> The binding defines the required 'memory-region' property that references
>> the dedicated shared memory area used for exchanging Ethernet packets
>> between processors.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@ti.com>
>> ---
>> .../devicetree/bindings/net/ti,rpmsg-eth.yaml | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ti,rpmsg-eth.yaml
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ti,rpmsg-eth.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ti,rpmsg-eth.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..1c86d5c020b0
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ti,rpmsg-eth.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/net/ti,rpmsg-eth.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Texas Instruments RPMsg channel nodes for Ethernet communication
>> +
>> +description: |
>> + RPMsg Ethernet subnode represents the communication interface between host
>> + processor and a remote processor.
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> + - MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@ti.com>
>> +
>> +properties:
>> + memory-region:
>> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
>> + description: |
>> + Phandle to the shared memory region used for communication between the
>> + host processor and the remote processor.
>> + This shared memory region is used to exchange Ethernet packets.
>> +
>> +required:
>> + - memory-region
>> +
>> +additionalProperties: false
>
> This cannot be really tested and is pointless binding... Really, one
> property does not make it a device node.
>
>

I tried to do something similar to google,cros-ec.yaml and
qcom,glink-edge.yaml

They are also rpmsg related and used by other vendors. I created similar
to that as my use case seems similar to them.

The only difference being I only need one property.

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Thanks and Regards,
Danish