Re: [PATCH net-next v4 15/15] dt-bindings: net: Introduce the phy-port description

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 11:16:03AM +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 lanes, 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 <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> V4: no changes
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 +++++++
>  .../bindings/net/ethernet-port.yaml           | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-port.yaml

Seems my comments on v2 were ignored. Those issues remain.