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authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>2014-02-11 17:27:40 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-12 19:08:20 -0500
commit3d055d8d1c24093bdd40e000570a59b841c2bb0b (patch)
tree01abab57957e897a2cd4f539db4c05ae96f8cd7c /Documentation
parent8a2fe56e8827f2b1eb1766702f0215074dd2767e (diff)
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>
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@@ -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.