Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] dt-bindings: net: Add network-class schema for mac-address properties
From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Mar 24 2025 - 19:00:23 EST
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM David Heidelberg via B4 Relay
<devnull+david.ixit.cz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The ethernet-controller schema specifies "mac-address" and
> "local-mac-address" but other network devices such as wireless network
> adapters use mac addresses as well.
> The Devicetree Specification, Release v0.3 specifies in section 4.3.1
> a generic "Network Class Binding" with "address-bits", "mac-address",
> "local-mac-address" and "max-frame-size". This schema specifies the
> "address-bits" property and moves the remaining properties over from
> the ethernet-controller.yaml schema.
>
> The "max-frame-size" property is used to describe the maximal payload
> size despite its name. Keep the description from ethernet-controller
> specifying this property as MTU. The contradictory description in the
> Devicetree Specification is ignored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml | 25 +-----------
> .../devicetree/bindings/net/network-class.yaml | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>