[PATCH v4 1/3] dt-bindings: net: sophgo,sg2044-dwmac: add phy mode restriction
Inochi Amaoto
inochiama at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 19:17:17 PDT 2025
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:54:49PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:56:09AM +0800, Inochi Amaoto wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 07:22:37PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 08:38:56AM +0800, Inochi Amaoto wrote:
> > > > As the ethernet controller of SG2044 and SG2042 only supports
> > > > RGMII phy. Add phy-mode property to restrict the value.
> > > >
> > > > Also, since SG2042 has internal rx delay in its mac, make
> > > > only "rgmii-txid" and "rgmii-id" valid for phy-mode.
> > >
> > > Should this have a fixes tag?
> > > Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> > >
> >
> > Although I add a fixes tag to the driver, I am not sure whether the
> > binding requires it. But if it is required, I think it should be
>
> Kinda depends for bindings, amending a binding for completeness probably
> doesn't need one but amending it to actually permit a functional
> configuration does. This is somewhere in-between I suppose. If a driver
> change is coming along with it which is likely to be backported, that'd
> be a vote in favour of a fixes tag here too, so that the binding and
> driver match in stable.
>
Thank you. It is helpful for me. And in this case, it is suitable
to add this fixes tag.
Regards,
Inochi
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