Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] dt-bindings: net: add Realtek RTL8125 PCIe Ethernet

[Heiko Stuebner]

Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2026, 22:07:51 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Ricardo Pardini via B4 Relay:
> From: Ricardo Pardini <ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a binding for fixed/soldered Realtek RTL8125 PCIe Ethernet
> controller. As a PCIe device, its "pci10ec,8125" compatible is the
> Open Firmware spelling auto-derived from its PCI-SIG vendor/device IDs
> and is already covered by the generic dtschema pci-device.yaml. The
> compatible itself therefore needs no binding to be valid.
> 
> A dedicated binding is needed because board DTs describe these
> soldered function nodes in order to attach ethernet-controller
> properties to them: a placeholder local-mac-address that the bootloader
> fills in today, and potentially nvmem-cells, phy-handle, etc. in the
> future. This binding references ethernet-controller.yaml so those
> properties are validated on the RTL8125 PCI function nodes.
> 
> Suggested-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Pardini <ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

this needs to go through the network tree I think and their processes
are heavily automated, so this should be sent separately.

Heiko