Re: [RFC PATCH] dt-binding: net: sfp binding documentation

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Hi Rob,

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 02:10:33PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 5:28 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Add device-tree binding documentation SFP transceivers. Support for SFP
> > transceivers has been recently introduced (drivers/net/phy/sfp.c).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > The SFP driver is on net-next.
> >
> > Not sure about the rate-select-gpio property name. The SFP+ standard
> > (not supported yet) uses two signals, RS0 and RS1. RS0 is compatible
> > with the SFP rate select signal, while RS1 controls the Tx rate.
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sff-sfp.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sff-sfp.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sff-sfp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sff-sfp.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..f0c27bc3925e
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/sff-sfp.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> > +Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP)
> > +Transceiver
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +
> > +- compatible : must be "sff,sfp"
> 
> Need to document "sff" vendor prefix.

"sff" stands for Small Form Factor Committee, now under Storage Networking 
Industry Association (SNIA). Not really a vendor, but a standards body. Does 
that count? I could not find any other example in vendor-prefixes.txt, other 
than "linux" which is kind of special.

> Kind of a short name, but I guess it is sufficient. Are there
> revisions of the standard (not SFP+) or more than one form factor (I
> don't recall any)?

I'm not aware of any other revisions.

baruch

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