Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 03/14] dt-bindings: net: document ethernet PHY package nodes

Andrew Lunn
2023-11-23T15:07:30Z

> compatible = "ethernet-phy-package", "qca807x-phy-package";
>
> With "ethernet-phy-package" a must and "qca807x-phy-package" used only
> if additional property are used.
>
> My current idea was to use select and base everything on the possible
> PHY compatible (and it does work, tested by adding bloat in the DT
> example and seeing if the schema was rejected). Had this idea since the
> compatible would never be used.

The DT people are unhappy with PHYs don't use compatibles, so
validation does not work. It probably too late to add compatibles to
very PHY driver. But this is new development work, we don't have any
history. So we can add a compatible per package to make the validation
tools work.

So for parsing the tree in the kernel we look for
'ethernet-phy-package'. For validating the tree using the yaml tools
we use the 'qca807x-phy-package'.

Andrew