[PATCH net-next v16 01/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:14:03AM +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 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 at bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew