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| author | Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> | 2014-02-12 05:27:40 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-02-13 04:08:20 +0400 |
| commit | 3d055d8d1c24093bdd40e000570a59b841c2bb0b (patch) | |
| tree | 01abab57957e897a2cd4f539db4c05ae96f8cd7c /Documentation | |
| parent | 8a2fe56e8827f2b1eb1766702f0215074dd2767e (diff) | |
| download | linux-3d055d8d1c24093bdd40e000570a59b841c2bb0b.tar.xz | |
net: phy: expose PHY device interface mode
Expose the PHY device interface mode through sysfs since this is an
useful piece of information for knowing how the attached networking
device will have configured its transmit/receive path.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio index 6349749ebc29..2133afd0b067 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio @@ -7,3 +7,13 @@ Description: by the device during bus enumeration, encoded in hexadecimal. This ID is used to match the device with the appropriate driver. + +What: /sys/bus/mdio_bus/devices/.../phy_interface +Date: February 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.15 +Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org +Description: + This attribute contains the PHY interface as configured by the + Ethernet driver during bus enumeration, encoded in string. + This interface mode is used to configure the Ethernet MAC with the + appropriate mode for its data lines to the PHY hardware. |