RE: [RFC PATCH 4/4] dt-bindings: net: phy: extend dt binding for VSC8541 ethernet-phy

[Sagar Kadam]

Hello Rob,

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> From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> To: Sagar Kadam <sagar.kadam@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] dt-bindings: net: phy: extend dt binding for
> VSC8541 ethernet-phy
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 04:16:48AM -0700, Sagar Shrikant Kadam wrote:
> > Adding a OUI (Organizationally Unique Identifier) for VSC8541-01
> > device to dt node requires a corresponding dt-binding entry as well
> > so that checkpatch doesn't complain with a warning:
> >
> > DT compatible string "ethernet-phy-id0007.0771" appears un-documented
> >
> > Here extend the existing dt binding of VSC8531 device to include
> > VSC8541 device example.
> 
> Checkpatch.pl is just dumb here and can be ignored. We have the regex
> that documents this compatible. We don't need every VID/PID listed.
>
Thank you for the information. 
We can then drop this patch to handle un-documented warning.

BR,
Sagar Kadam
 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sagar Shrikant Kadam <sagar.kadam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8531.txt | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8531.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8531.txt
> > index 5ff37c6..774448a 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8531.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8531.txt
> > @@ -68,3 +68,6 @@ Example:
> >                  vsc8531,led-0-mode   = <LINK_1000_ACTIVITY>;
> >                  vsc8531,led-1-mode   = <LINK_100_ACTIVITY>;
> >          };
> > +        vsc8541_0: ethernet-phy@0 {
> > +                compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0007.0771";
> > +     };
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >