From 39420fe04f093c15e1674ef56dbae0df109738ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corentin Labbe Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:14:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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"