[PATCH net-next v20 01/14] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description

[Rob Herring (Arm)]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:17:44 +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.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  .../bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml      | 57 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 ++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 76 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
> 

My bot found errors running 'make dt_binding_check' on your patch:

yamllint warnings/errors:

dtschema/dtc warnings/errors:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c263000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c263000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c265000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c265000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-sensor.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c263000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-sensor.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c263000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-sensor.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c265000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-sensor.example.dtb: /example-0/soc/thermal-sensor at c265000: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['qcom,sdm845-tsens', 'qcom,tsens-v2']

doc reference errors (make refcheckdocs):

See https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20251127171800.171330-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com

The base for the series is generally the latest rc1. A different dependency
should be noted in *this* patch.

If you already ran 'make dt_binding_check' and didn't see the above
error(s), then make sure 'yamllint' is installed and dt-schema is up to
date:

pip3 install dtschema --upgrade

Please check and re-submit after running the above command yourself. Note
that DT_SCHEMA_FILES can be set to your schema file to speed up checking
your schema. However, it must be unset to test all examples with your schema.