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authorCorentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>2019-04-20 21:14:33 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-04-21 21:24:08 +0300
commit39420fe04f093c15e1674ef56dbae0df109738ec (patch)
tree847ccb6a7d146a4f2d0f919af7d655ff6345dfb7
parent12c7686111326148b4b5db189130522a4ad1be4a (diff)
downloadlinux-39420fe04f093c15e1674ef56dbae0df109738ec.tar.xz
dt-bindings: add an explanation for internal phy-mode
When working on the Allwinner internal PHY, the first work was to use the "internal" mode, but some answer was made my mail on what are really internal mean for PHY. This patch write that in the doc. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
index 2974e63ba311..a68621580584 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt.
Specification).
- phy-mode: string, operation mode of the PHY interface. This is now a de-facto
standard property; supported values are:
- * "internal"
+ * "internal" (Internal means there is not a standard bus between the MAC and
+ the PHY, something proprietary is being used to embed the PHY in the MAC.)
* "mii"
* "gmii"
* "sgmii"