From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (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 4C0C12D63EF; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1763039530; cv=none; b=JRpdHa1fvSyeql3Xx9FcgDOIjq7hWFssxJsI3F8JaFPR+PzgjqgODq5QSR1kTWMOdnHVu4cTkaivq8ETxhcderqYMNm2YC2fm4oVYg2pCnLXBmbB5wlU/UyPaX2UeF7XCoPgvaO8W8SSqqRVTqHfTdbFb1caiBnqqgIebt35a5E= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1763039530; c=relaxed/simple; bh=rBSDYhIWD6fOhQkFiO+WUIH2IEadiKrWhYcakRCY4K0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=jyLk5tudSr6sWmTXHwD7rrUi8RoAJIzyrb2S82nVvC/4RyhcnItYxKLf/yhleWlB3xhsz8pFz77prxyS5zVHu0xmFrAuG6Inms9FOCw1SPG/WtNA+r/gLB4pFuY0Yo+xCqdptMl4kJkN3CtmiYeF2j9wM+QmkdYLB4FYm1l5gb0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=o8bZAiwt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="o8bZAiwt" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=xKs2vcQHUm9Ov23KIOQeeZgSUOAdjUKNPI1hdxc9EQY=; b=o8bZAiwt2ZyK+SPtM+OQkZEGvr 63AvlxnAJffmbltmOR6sn/jEUZftZ8icFc35Xd13CLLEGQVTOfLTU3xjoMRJIi5U/kjMgLqwo1+Pv Ez/GIPisyX9qkQbn132SAT7wk9pr1lEb/KpXPavFBJWoqmiYFEwHvuVMksKofU/57BrI=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1vJX7C-00Dras-IX; Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:11:54 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:11:54 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Maxime Chevallier Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Christophe Leroy , Herve Codina , Florian Fainelli , Heiner Kallweit , Vladimir Oltean , =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ry?= Maincent , Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= , Oleksij Rempel , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=F2?= Veronese , Simon Horman , mwojtas@chromium.org, Antoine Tenart , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Conor Dooley , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Rob Herring , Romain Gantois , Daniel Golle , Dimitri Fedrau Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v16 01/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the ethernet-connector description Message-ID: 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, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:14:03AM +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 Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Andrew