[PATCH v2 4/5] dt-bindings: net: Add documentation for optional regulators

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Thu May 19 04:33:21 PDT 2022


On 19/05/2022 13:31, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:55:28AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 18/05/2022 22:09, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> 
>>> +  regulators:
>>> +    description:
>>> +       List of phandle to regulators needed for the PHY
> 
>> I don't understand that... is your PHY defining the regulators or using
>> supplies? If it needs a regulator (as a supply), you need to document
>> supplies, using existing bindings.
> 
> They're trying to have a generic driver which works with any random PHY
> so the binding has no idea what supplies it might need.

OK, that makes sense, but then question is why not using existing
naming, so "supplies" and "supply-names"?

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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