[PATCH net-next v4 15/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the phy-port description

[Maxime Chevallier]

Hi Rob,

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:35:30 -0600
Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 11:16:03AM +0100, 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 <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>
> > ---
> > V4: no changes
> > 
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 +++++++
> >  .../bindings/net/ethernet-port.yaml           | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +
> >  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-port.yaml  
> 
> Seems my comments on v2 were ignored. Those issues remain.

My bad, I apparently completely missed it :/ Let me get back to that :)

Thanks,

Maxime