Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 01/16] dt-bindings: net: Add pcs property

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:

quoted

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