From: Corentin Labbe Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:14:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: dt-bindings: add an explanation for internal phy-mode X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=39420fe04f093c15e1674ef56dbae0df109738ec;p=linux.git 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 Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt index 2974e63ba311a..a686215805846 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"