Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] dt-bindings: net: ethernet-phy: increase max clock count to two

From: Rob Herring

Date: Fri Jun 05 2026 - 12:10:44 EST


On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 04:41:26PM +0400, George Moussalem wrote:
> The clocks property has a restriction to maximum one.
> Yet, some PHYs may require more than 1 clock such as the IPQ5018 PHY
> which requires two clocks for RX and TX. As such, increase maxItems to
> two.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Moussalem <george.moussalem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Commit 350b7a258f20 introduced the clocks property with a restriction to
> maximum 1 to the main ethernet-phy.yaml binding for Realtek to add an
> optional external clock source. This is restrictive to all PHY bindings,
> as some PHYs may require more than 1 clock such as the IPQ5018 PHY which
> requires 2 clocks (for RX and TX).
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-phy.yaml | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>