[RFC PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: net: amlogic,meson-dwmac: spell out the compatible combinations

From: Lucas Tanure

Date: Sun Oct 04 2026 - 10:41:02 EST


The compatible property only checks that the first entry is an Amlogic
name and that "snps,dwmac" or "snps,dwmac-3.70a" appears somewhere in
the list. It cannot express which fallbacks each SoC takes, so a SoC
built on a different Synopsys core cannot be added without loosening
the check for every other one.

List the combinations the device trees actually use: Meson6 and
Meson8m2 fall back to "snps,dwmac" alone, the others also name the
3.70a core. The example used a two-entry form no device tree has, so
give it the Meson GXBB combination.

Assisted-by: LLM
Suggested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Tanure <tanure@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml | 30 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml
index 5c91716d1f21..90ef79161ab1 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/amlogic,meson-dwmac.yaml
@@ -129,20 +129,20 @@ allOf:

properties:
compatible:
- additionalItems: true
- maxItems: 3
- items:
- - enum:
- - amlogic,meson6-dwmac
- - amlogic,meson8b-dwmac
- - amlogic,meson8m2-dwmac
- - amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac
- - amlogic,meson-axg-dwmac
- - amlogic,meson-g12a-dwmac
- contains:
- enum:
- - snps,dwmac-3.70a
- - snps,dwmac
+ oneOf:
+ - items:
+ - enum:
+ - amlogic,meson8b-dwmac
+ - amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac
+ - amlogic,meson-axg-dwmac
+ - amlogic,meson-g12a-dwmac
+ - const: snps,dwmac-3.70a
+ - const: snps,dwmac
+ - items:
+ - enum:
+ - amlogic,meson6-dwmac
+ - amlogic,meson8m2-dwmac
+ - const: snps,dwmac

reg:
items:
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ unevaluatedProperties: false
examples:
- |
ethmac: ethernet@c9410000 {
- compatible = "amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac", "snps,dwmac";
+ compatible = "amlogic,meson-gxbb-dwmac", "snps,dwmac-3.70a", "snps,dwmac";
reg = <0xc9410000 0x10000>, <0xc8834540 0x8>;
interrupts = <8>;
interrupt-names = "macirq";
--
2.56.0