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From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: "Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	"Christophe Leroy" <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	"Herve Codina" <herve.codina@bootlin.com>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"Heiner Kallweit" <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	"Vladimir Oltean" <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
	"Köry Maincent" <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
	"Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>,
	"Oleksij Rempel" <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>,
	"Nicolò Veronese" <nicveronese@gmail.com>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
	mwojtas@chromium.org, "Antoine Tenart" <atenart@kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Romain Gantois" <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>,
	"Daniel Golle" <daniel@makrotopia.org>,
	"Dimitri Fedrau" <dimitri.fedrau@liebherr.com>,
	"Tariq Toukan" <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v22 01/14] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description
Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2026 09:00:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108080041.553250-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108080041.553250-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>

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 pairs, 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 <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
---
 .../bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml      | 56 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 ++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9ad7a00d4d01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/net/ethernet-connector.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Generic Ethernet Connector
+
+maintainers:
+  - Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
+
+description:
+  An Ethernet Connector represents the output of a network component such as
+  a PHY, an Ethernet controller with no PHY, or an SFP module.
+
+properties:
+
+  pairs:
+    description:
+      Defines the number of BaseT pairs that are used on the connector.
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+    enum: [1, 2, 4]
+
+  media:
+    description:
+      The mediums, as defined in 802.3, that can be used on the port.
+    enum:
+      - BaseT
+      - BaseK
+      - BaseS
+      - BaseC
+      - BaseL
+      - BaseD
+      - BaseE
+      - BaseF
+      - BaseV
+      - BaseMLD
+
+required:
+  - media
+
+allOf:
+  - if:
+      properties:
+        media:
+          const: BaseT
+    then:
+      required:
+        - pairs
+    else:
+      properties:
+        pairs: false
+
+additionalProperties: true
+
+...
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
index bb4c49fc5fd8..58634fee9fc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
@@ -281,6 +281,17 @@ properties:
 
     additionalProperties: false
 
+  mdi:
+    type: object
+
+    patternProperties:
+      '^connector-[0-9]+$':
+        $ref: /schemas/net/ethernet-connector.yaml#
+
+        unevaluatedProperties: false
+
+    additionalProperties: false
+
 required:
   - reg
 
@@ -317,5 +328,12 @@ examples:
                     default-state = "keep";
                 };
             };
+            /* Fast Ethernet port, with only 2 pairs wired */
+            mdi {
+                connector-0 {
+                    pairs = <2>;
+                    media = "BaseT";
+                };
+            };
         };
     };
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 765ad2daa218..c0e79c324c62 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9394,6 +9394,7 @@ R:	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-phydev
+F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio*
 F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ar803x.yaml
-- 
2.49.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-08  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-08  8:00 [PATCH net-next v22 00/14] net: phy: Introduce PHY ports representation Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` Maxime Chevallier [this message]
2026-01-13 14:46   ` [PATCH net-next v22 01/14] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description Rob Herring (Arm)
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 02/14] net: ethtool: Introduce ETHTOOL_LINK_MEDIUM_* values Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08 16:53   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 03/14] net: phy: Introduce PHY ports representation Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08 16:59   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 04/14] net: phy: dp83822: Add support for phy_port representation Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 05/14] dt-bindings: net: dp83822: Deprecate ti,fiber-mode Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 06/14] net: phy: Create a phy_port for PHY-driven SFPs Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 07/14] net: phy: Introduce generic SFP handling for PHY drivers Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 08/14] net: phy: marvell-88x2222: Support SFP through phy_port interface Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 09/14] net: phy: marvell: " Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 10/14] net: phy: marvell10g: Support SFP through phy_port Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 11/14] net: phy: at803x: Support SFP through phy_port interface Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 12/14] net: phy: qca807x: " Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 13/14] net: phy: Only rely on phy_port for PHY-driven SFP Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-08  8:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 14/14] Documentation: networking: Document the phy_port infrastructure Maxime Chevallier
2026-01-14  3:00 ` [PATCH net-next v22 00/14] net: phy: Introduce PHY ports representation patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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