From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DB1212CDA5; Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753054193; cv=none; b=CGYVq/8qLSOSCF0qYU0kE6nucQzGCJOpt1Qb2Kadi2PaxTnNuUillVAPtf3KB62B/4whCX0UJcOv5xiKfDgo7oYbEhlZtzdUpqmiqAvs0r/4oP6o9We5ZeJgTGJIV5QyYFEwM1FQHWzrV3UQYu0m5KvOVfZxqMMf2zv6S1Rr2CY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753054193; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9vRFi57eCNNn/RDG1UsnpLJA0b2NK9C+iSXFxF1Bsu4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=V1FrqveAG5O50zY4x126Ffp40SI63pGNJ+hLMKuGbD5Dk+gsYNCN2IUVuIIhg/3UmGPh1R/uuvKPqoenjfwlAF3/kGc8uKvQWcKZ3SeLoHgCSHmO/oAH/JJHNdNkxS8q0I0n7JzlPa8YUo/CCQs6BCDCzSKgWtrHQmbLKPteDuU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=r8V/zCiy; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="r8V/zCiy" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E9C0CC4CEE7; Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:29:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1753054193; bh=9vRFi57eCNNn/RDG1UsnpLJA0b2NK9C+iSXFxF1Bsu4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=r8V/zCiyA4u/5PyfBrhpwGiPbXUwMo0HTAx+K7zSRwdmp+PKBPT2vii+6hPfcbAjy 2E+uTWZ8QZjdX4Z8defLdoE1RtHOnwdeMWfjGsGtRSXdWPp+pMDXXBmabMPFi0t7X5 MTeg9th7oSkxf7MG4+Gj/EC+h26qOlzDV9EYcDUzPD1z6ls4lI+4MwTFzBqICzXShD 7BLvUbAPGD84WrSLNxuwEP9AFhXNN7/0qmkEwJX5EABaJ2MSfEeTWET8LKrSJZcXeQ 5uKxFu29ob4YwEuI5dYLikVQDIyrjpBvw2WgVNlD1qxkp1PFkSuYTK8vxJhWkGC+Yv UE+r0AgmhZ79w== Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:29:52 -0500 From: "Rob Herring (Arm)" To: Maxime Chevallier Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ry?= Maincent , thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Jakub Kicinski , Florian Fainelli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, Conor Dooley , Eric Dumazet , Herve Codina , Andrew Lunn , Vladimir Oltean , Oleksij Rempel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=F2?= Veronese , Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= , Simon Horman , Christophe Leroy , Antoine Tenart , Russell King , Paolo Abeni , Dimitri Fedrau , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Golle , Krzysztof Kozlowski , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Romain Gantois , mwojtas@chromium.org, Heiner Kallweit Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 01/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description Message-ID: <175305419142.3067276.17489545129976520306.robh@kernel.org> References: <20250717073020.154010-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> <20250717073020.154010-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250717073020.154010-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:30:05 +0200, 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). > > - The media that can be used on that port, such as BaseT for Twisted > Copper, BaseC for coax copper, BaseS/L for Fiber, BaseK for backplane > ethernet, etc. This allows defining the nature of the port, and > therefore avoids the need for vendor-specific properties such as > "micrel,fiber-mode" or "ti,fiber-mode". > > The port description lives in its own file, as it is intended in the > future to allow describing the ports for phy-less devices. > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier > --- > .../bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml | 45 +++++++++++++++++++ > .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 ++++++++ > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm)