[PATCH net-next v6 01/14] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description

[Kory Maincent]

On Wed,  7 May 2025 15:53:17 +0200
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com> 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>
> +description:
> +  An Ethernet Connectr represents the output of a network component such as

Connector

With this typo fixed:
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent at bootlin.com>

> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8777,6 +8777,7 @@ R:	Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
>  L:	netdev at 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

You will need Russell acked-by for that. 

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com