Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] dt-bindings: net: nxp,s32-dwmac: Use the GPR syscon

From: Rob Herring

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 12:57:14 EST


On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 05:13:32PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The S32 chipsets have a GPR region which has a miscellaneous registers
> including the GMAC_0_CTRL_STS register. Originally, this code accessed
> that register in a sort of ad-hoc way, but it's cleaner to use a
> syscon interface to access these registers.
>
> We still need to maintain the old method of accessing the GMAC register
> but using a syscon will let us access other registers more cleanly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3: Better documentation about what GMAC_0_CTRL_STS register does.
> v2: Add the vendor prefix to the phandle
> Fix the documentation
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
> index 2b8b74c5feec..cc0dd3941715 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,s32-dwmac.yaml
> @@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ properties:
> - description: Main GMAC registers
> - description: GMAC PHY mode control register
>
> + nxp,phy-sel:
> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
> + items:
> + - description: phandle to the GPR syscon node
> + - description: offset of PHY selection register

It should be:

items:
- items:
- description: ...
- description: ...

Because it is 1 phandle+args entry of 2 cells.

Rob