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On 10/5/21 5:39 AM, 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".
> 
> We actually already have LX2160A platforms using "pcs-handle", (see
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl,qoriq-mc-dpmac.yaml) so we're
> in danger of ending up with multiple property names describing the same
> thing.
> 

Either way is fine by me.

--Sean