Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: net: qca,ipq5018: Split IPQ5018 PHY bindings from ar803x

From: Rob Herring

Date: Mon Jun 01 2026 - 16:51:36 EST


On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 12:45:25PM -0500, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
>
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:19:08 +0400, George Moussalem wrote:
> > Move the definition for the Qualcomm IPQ5018 Internal PHY out of the
> > qca,ar803x.yaml binding file and isolate them in a dedicated
> > qca,ipq5018.yaml file. This is necessary due to the restriction of max
> > one clock in ethernet-phy.yaml which ar803x references as further
> > testing revealed that the RX and TX clocks of the IPQ5018 PHY need to
> > be explicitly enabled.

Just splitting does not solve this problem as you can see with the
error. You will need to drop this constraint from ethernet-phy.yaml and
add it (1 clock) to every specific phy binding (that uses 'clocks').

> >
> > Signed-off-by: George Moussalem <george.moussalem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ar803x.yaml | 43 -------------
> > .../devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ipq5018.yaml | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> >
>
> My bot found errors running 'make dt_binding_check' on your patch:
>
> yamllint warnings/errors:
>
> dtschema/dtc warnings/errors:
> /builds/robherring/dt-review-ci/linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ipq5018.example.dtb: ethernet-phy@7 (ethernet-phy-id004d.d0c0): clocks: [[4294967295, 36], [4294967295, 37]] is too long
> from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
>
> doc reference errors (make refcheckdocs):
>
> See https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/devicetree/patch/20260601-ipq5018-gephy-clocks-v1-1-2df8287712c3@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> The base for the series is generally the latest rc1. A different dependency
> should be noted in *this* patch.
>
> If you already ran 'make dt_binding_check' and didn't see the above
> error(s), then make sure 'yamllint' is installed and dt-schema is up to
> date:
>
> pip3 install dtschema --upgrade
>
> Please check and re-submit after running the above command yourself. Note
> that DT_SCHEMA_FILES can be set to your schema file to speed up checking
> your schema. However, it must be unset to test all examples with your schema.
>
>