Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:137:e000::1:20;
Message-ID: <c74b0524-60c6-c3af-e35f-13521ba2b02e@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 May 2022 13:33:21 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/91.8.1
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] dt-bindings: net: Add documentation for optional
 regulators
Content-Language: en-US
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>, andrew@lunn.ch,
        calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com, davem@davemloft.net,
        edumazet@google.com, hkallweit1@gmail.com,
        jernej.skrabec@gmail.com, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org,
        kuba@kernel.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
        pabeni@redhat.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, samuel@sholland.org,
        wens@csie.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org
References: <20220518200939.689308-1-clabbe@baylibre.com>
 <20220518200939.689308-5-clabbe@baylibre.com>
 <95f3f0a4-17e6-ec5f-6f2f-23a5a4993a44@linaro.org>
 <YoYqmAB3P7fNOSVG@sirena.org.uk>
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <YoYqmAB3P7fNOSVG@sirena.org.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: bulk

On 19/05/2022 13:31, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:55:28AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 18/05/2022 22:09, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> 
>>> +  regulators:
>>> +    description:
>>> +       List of phandle to regulators needed for the PHY
> 
>> I don't understand that... is your PHY defining the regulators or using
>> supplies? If it needs a regulator (as a supply), you need to document
>> supplies, using existing bindings.
> 
> They're trying to have a generic driver which works with any random PHY
> so the binding has no idea what supplies it might need.

OK, that makes sense, but then question is why not using existing
naming, so "supplies" and "supply-names"?

Best regards,
Krzysztof