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author | Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> | 2014-02-18 01:34:04 +0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-02-18 01:40:09 +0400 |
commit | 7f6224b7c73b6ce66b6a07e4a0c3b826540b13bb (patch) | |
tree | 3d28d96b16090e2ac42bc51b75cf763becc0335a /Documentation/networking/phy.txt | |
parent | 9df81dd7583d14862d0cfb673a941b261f3b2112 (diff) | |
download | linux-7f6224b7c73b6ce66b6a07e4a0c3b826540b13bb.tar.xz |
Documentation: networking: update phy.txt with recent changes
The PHY library was missing a bunch of newly added PHY driver callbacks
along with a smallish description of what they do, fix that.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/phy.txt')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt index ebf270719402..e602c6f347df 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt @@ -253,16 +253,25 @@ Writing a PHY driver Each driver consists of a number of function pointers: + soft_reset: perform a PHY software reset config_init: configures PHY into a sane state after a reset. For instance, a Davicom PHY requires descrambling disabled. probe: Allocate phy->priv, optionally refuse to bind. PHY may not have been reset or had fixups run yet. suspend/resume: power management config_aneg: Changes the speed/duplex/negotiation settings + aneg_done: Determines the auto-negotiation result read_status: Reads the current speed/duplex/negotiation settings ack_interrupt: Clear a pending interrupt + did_interrupt: Checks if the PHY generated an interrupt config_intr: Enable or disable interrupts remove: Does any driver take-down + ts_info: Queries about the HW timestamping status + hwtstamp: Set the PHY HW timestamping configuration + rxtstamp: Requests a receive timestamp at the PHY level for a 'skb' + txtsamp: Requests a transmit timestamp at the PHY level for a 'skb' + set_wol: Enable Wake-on-LAN at the PHY level + get_wol: Get the Wake-on-LAN status at the PHY level Of these, only config_aneg and read_status are required to be assigned by the driver code. The rest are optional. Also, it is |