Re: [PATCH net-next v3 01/47] dt-bindings: phy: Add Lynx 10G phy binding

[Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>]

Hi Rob,

On 7/21/22 7:35 PM, Sean Anderson wrote:
> What about
> 
> 	phys = <&serdes1_lane1>;
> 
> and then under the serdes node do something like
> 
> 	serdes1: phy@foo {
> 		...
> 
> 		serdes1_lane1 {
> 			first-lane = <1>;
> 
> 			sgmii {
> 				fsl,pccr = <0x8>;
> 				fsl,idx = <2>;
> 				fsl,cfg = <1>;
> 				fsl,proto = "sgmii";
> 				// or PHY_TYPE_SGMII
> 			};
> 
> 			qsgmii {
> 				...
> 			};
> 
> 			xfi {
> 				...
> 			};
> 		};
> 	};
> 
> and this way you could have something like a fsl,reserved property to
> deal with not-yet-supported lanes. And this could be added piecemeal by
> board configs.

Does this sound good? I would like to start working on v4 of this series,
and reworking the binding will be a big part of that. Am I heading in the
right direction? This seems to be a more common approach (e.g. mediatek,tphy).

--Sean