On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 03:45:18PM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The ability to describe the physical ports of Ethernet devices is useful
> to describe multi-port devices, as well as to remove any ambiguity with
> regard to the nature of the port.
>
> Moreover, describing ports allows for a better description of features
> that are tied to connectors, such as PoE through the PSE-PD devices.
>
> Introduce a binding to allow describing the ports, for now with 2
> attributes :
>
> - The number of lanes, which is a quite generic property that allows
> differentating between multiple similar technologies such as BaseT1
> and "regular" BaseT (which usually means BaseT4).
>
> - The media that can be used on that port, such as BaseT for Twisted
> Copper, BaseC for coax copper, BaseS/L for Fiber, BaseK for backplane
> ethernet, etc. This allows defining the nature of the port, and
> therefore avoids the need for vendor-specific properties such as
> "micrel,fiber-mode" or "ti,fiber-mode".
>
> The port description lives in its own file, as it is intended in the
> future to allow describing the ports for phy-less devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
> ---
> .../bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
> .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 18 +++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..8765efc6e233
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/net/ethernet-connector.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Generic Ethernet Connector
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
> +
> +description:
> + An Ethernet Connectr represents the output of a network component such as
typo.
> + a PHY, an Ethernet controller with no PHY, or an SFP module.
> +
> +properties:
> +
> + lanes:
> + description:
> + Defines the number of lanes on the port, that is the number of physical
> + channels used to convey the data with the link partner.
> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +
> + media:
> + description:
> + The mediums, as defined in 802.3, that can be used on the port.
> + items:
> + enum:
> + - BaseT
> + - BaseK
> + - BaseS
> + - BaseC
> + - BaseL
> + - BaseD
> + - BaseE
> + - BaseF
> + - BaseV
> + - BaseMLD
> + maxItems: 1
Drop 'items' and 'maxItems' and then it is implicitly only 1.
> +
> +required:
> + - lanes
> + - media
> +
> +additionalProperties: true
> +
> +...
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
> index 71e2cd32580f..6bf670beb66f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
> @@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ properties:
>
> additionalProperties: false
>
> + mdi:
> + type: object
> +
> + patternProperties:
> + '^connector-[a-f0-9]+$':
> + $ref: /schemas/net/ethernet-connector.yaml#
> +
> + unevaluatedProperties: false
> +
> + additionalProperties: false
> +
> required:
> - reg
>
> @@ -313,5 +324,12 @@ examples:
> default-state = "keep";
> };
> };
> +
> + mdi {
> + connector-0 {
> + lanes = <2>;
> + media = "BaseT";
> + };
Your indentation is not consistent.
I think we should consider a compatible here. Soon as you want to
distinguish one connector from another you will need one. Though we
could always retrofit that later.
> + };
> };
> };
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 881a1f08e665..b584f8dfdb24 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8959,6 +8959,7 @@ R: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> S: Maintained
> F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-phydev
> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-connector.yaml
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio*
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/qca,ar803x.yaml
> --
> 2.49.0
>