Re: [PATCH net-next v11 1/7] dt-bindings: phy: document the serdes PHY on sa8255p

Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:23:16 +0200, Vinod Koul <[email protected]> said:
> On 29-06-26, 16:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > Russell King asked me to put the PHY logic for SCMI pm domains into the PHY
>> > driver instead of the MAC driver where it was previously. Instead of cramming
>> > both HLOS and firmware handling into the same driver, I figured it makes more
>> > sense to have a dedicated, cleaner driver as the two share very little code (if
>> > any).
>>
>> I think you are mixing up DT bindings and driver implementation?
>
> Should the bindings change if we have different driver and firmware
> implementations? Isn't binding supposed to be agnostic of
> implementations..?
>

The way sa8255p implements SCMI is with SMC exclusively but - since even base
support is not yet upstream -  maybe it would be possible to expose SCMI clocks
like some platforms do and reuse the same binding.

Would it make sense?

Bart

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