Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:16:42 -0500 | From | Rob Herring <> | Subject | Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 01/16] dt-bindings: net: Add pcs property |
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:39:36AM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:15:12PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote: > > Add a property for associating PCS devices with ethernet controllers. > > Because PCS has no generic analogue like PHY, I have left off the > > -handle suffix. > > For PHYs, we used to have phy and phy-device as property names, but the > modern name is "phy-handle". I think we should do the same here, so I > would suggest using "pcs-handle".
On 1G and up ethernet, we have 2 PHYs. There's the external (typically) ethernet PHY which is what the above properties are for. Then there's the on-chip serdes PHY similar to SATA, PCIe, etc. which includes the PCS part. For this part, we should use the generic PHY binding. I think we already have bindings doing that.
Rob
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