[PATCH devicetree v3] dt-bindings: phy: Add `tx-p2p-microvolt` property binding
Rob Herring
robh at kernel.org
Fri Feb 4 18:18:40 PST 2022
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:18:09AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 1/19/22 5:11 AM, Marek Behún wrote:
> > Common PHYs and network PCSes often have the possibility to specify
> > peak-to-peak voltage on the differential pair - the default voltage
> > sometimes needs to be changed for a particular board.
> >
> > Add properties `tx-p2p-microvolt` and `tx-p2p-microvolt-names` for this
> > purpose. The second property is needed to specify the mode for the
> > corresponding voltage in the `tx-p2p-microvolt` property, if the voltage
> > is to be used only for speficic mode. More voltage-mode pairs can be
> > specified.
> >
> > Example usage with only one voltage (it will be used for all supported
> > PHY modes, the `tx-p2p-microvolt-names` property is not needed in this
> > case):
> >
> > tx-p2p-microvolt = <915000>;
> >
> > Example usage with voltages for multiple modes:
> >
> > tx-p2p-microvolt = <915000>, <1100000>, <1200000>;
> > tx-p2p-microvolt-names = "2500base-x", "usb", "pcie";
> >
> > Add these properties into a separate file phy/transmit-amplitude.yaml,
> > which should be referenced by any binding that uses it.
>
> p2p commonly means peer to peer which incidentally could be confusing,
> can you spell out the property entire:
>
> tx-peaktopeak-microvolt or:
>
> tx-pk2pk-microvolt for a more compact name maybe?
Peer to peer makes little sense in terms of a voltage. I think this is
fine as-is.
Rob
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