From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84A24355020; Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1763477428; cv=none; b=f9Yurk8j65ChgcXvj6SvmLUuB3teiZ2zHPlO7quFfPVDWUO52UvWZ4uX436G9bGDyscrWCd0HybLnFu8U0570ua+/qpwfPX0xqW5Hv7g1FLLQRh7Cr2LiqgaFyChpl3pMOLxM2fC2x3MWZfoKGavYELAp4GQU2WSCn+Vv6X+y20= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1763477428; c=relaxed/simple; bh=1E4X4gefkIzYTETLSk5bvLuWm/KtogFFY1CDdvW0meU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=V3q+m+pOaXE/Iia3/DQBwXd+Hh5oh0wW+DanmpcbItQ/5uhMU7eg6++RQ+pApObah5TUGCUMUdPY25Wudk6loeqTdmBfc4Oi2HCa5cuwVZmQpaI9AJ6RJRFVWG9Pwfq1zE2eYuvqaY9rQGjLVuzLQdtlWhSPgY9Z8iHZtco4rJM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=o7rOXQoI; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="o7rOXQoI" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2768C4CEF1; Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1763477428; bh=1E4X4gefkIzYTETLSk5bvLuWm/KtogFFY1CDdvW0meU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=o7rOXQoIC0LO3wczFpoOQkwAuSw/7ccNNDU0xkAt6kMBsNFiC7Grv6uzr3Jdg+aJf xatZa4QuZIveV8uod2MgfDR/jbedLBEq3f0wVmruwv/5JoErT9nXzlOSErGMQZ/hBE Jpl6chGel83nyc3+/mxHgkG6T2tOEOd8tXDH+VzOyVHZbuqZ4BNziVcJ47R7Gh2e+J uc8sxipRcDiRMPEPJ0bg7yLwLlrpRzM2pFiaS+nRTy68gAuYu5/atdRyaIWFKe70ch AN/Gx0+4HQkh8zegPQvCEBX2GPDpAjghwXKS0ENrlouwlQJcfSE+MhTp05ax1fMsD0 PdRSVsPzP6kPg== Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:50:26 -0600 From: "Rob Herring (Arm)" To: Maxime Chevallier Cc: Romain Gantois , Jakub Kicinski , Christophe Leroy , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=F2?= Veronese , Dimitri Fedrau , davem@davemloft.net, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Vladimir Oltean , Paolo Abeni , =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ry?= Maincent , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Oleksij Rempel , Russell King , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Simon Horman , Florian Fainelli , Daniel Golle , Eric Dumazet , Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Herve Codina , Conor Dooley , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, mwojtas@chromium.org, Antoine Tenart , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Andrew Lunn , Heiner Kallweit Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v16 01/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description Message-ID: <176347742560.3223087.13861755734926034941.robh@kernel.org> References: <20251113081418.180557-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> <20251113081418.180557-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251113081418.180557-2-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:14:03 +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 > --- > .../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 > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm)