Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/35] dt-bindings: phy: Add QorIQ SerDes binding

[Sean Anderson]

On 6/28/22 10:09 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:13:30 -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
>> This adds a binding for the SerDes module found on QorIQ processors. The
>> phy reference has two cells, one for the first lane and one for the
>> last. This should allow for good support of multi-lane protocols when
>> (if) they are added. There is no protocol option, because the driver is
>> designed to be able to completely reconfigure lanes at runtime.
>> Generally, the phy consumer can select the appropriate protocol using
>> set_mode. For the most part there is only one protocol controller
>> (consumer) per lane/protocol combination. The exception to this is the
>> B4860 processor, which has some lanes which can be connected to
>> multiple MACs. For that processor, I anticipate the easiest way to
>> resolve this will be to add an additional cell with a "protocol
>> controller instance" property.
>> 
>> Each serdes has a unique set of supported protocols (and lanes). The
>> support matrix is stored in the driver and is selected based on the
>> compatible string. It is anticipated that a new compatible string will
>> need to be added for each serdes on each SoC that drivers support is
>> added for. There is no "generic" compatible string for this reason.
>> 
>> There are two PLLs, each of which can be used as the master clock for
>> each lane. Each PLL has its own reference. For the moment they are
>> required, because it simplifies the driver implementation. Absent
>> reference clocks can be modeled by a fixed-clock with a rate of 0.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Add #clock-cells. This will allow using assigned-clocks* to configure
>>   the PLLs.
>> - Allow a value of 1 for phy-cells. This allows for compatibility with
>>   the similar (but according to Ioana Ciornei different enough) lynx-28g
>>   binding.
>> - Document phy cells in the description
>> - Document the structure of the compatible strings
>> - Fix example binding having too many cells in regs
>> - Move compatible first
>> - Refer to the device in the documentation, rather than the binding
>> - Remove minItems
>> - Rename to fsl,lynx-10g.yaml
>> - Use list for clock-names
>> 
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/phy/fsl,lynx-10g.yaml | 93 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 93 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/fsl,lynx-10g.yaml
>> 
> 
> My bot found errors running 'make DT_CHECKER_FLAGS=-m dt_binding_check'
> on your patch (DT_CHECKER_FLAGS is new in v5.13):
> 
> yamllint warnings/errors:
> 
> dtschema/dtc warnings/errors:
> /builds/robherring/linux-dt-review/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/temperature/adi,ltc2983.yaml: patternProperties:^thermistor@:properties:adi,excitation-current-nanoamp: '$ref' should not be valid under {'const': '$ref'}
> 	hint: Standard unit suffix properties don't need a type $ref
> 	from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> /builds/robherring/linux-dt-review/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/temperature/adi,ltc2983.yaml: ignoring, error in schema: patternProperties: ^thermistor@: properties: adi,excitation-current-nanoamp
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/temperature/adi,ltc2983.example.dtb:0:0: /example-0/spi/ltc2983@0: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['adi,ltc2983']

This looks unrelated to this patch AFAICT.

--Sean