On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 06:57:40PM +0800, David.Wu wrote: > Hi Andrew, Florian > > 在 2017/8/10 8:20, Andrew Lunn 写道: > > Hi Florian, David. > > > > I'm happy with the property name. But i think the text needs more > > description. We deal with Ethernet switches with integrated PHYs. Yet > > for us, this property is unneeded. > > > > Seeing this property means some bit of software needs to ensure the > > internal PHY should be used, when given the choice between an internal > > and external PHY. So i would say something like: > > > > If set, indicates that the PHY is integrated into the same > > physical package as the Ethernet MAC. If needed, muxers should be > > configured to ensure the (internal) PHY is used. The absence of this > > property indicates the muxers should be configured so that the > > external PHY is used. > > Are we supposed to replace the words "internal" with "integrated" here? > So we have three kinds of PHY, they are intenal, external and integrated > PHYs. And you can have both a XAUI/serdes phy and the ethernet phy. It should be clear this is for the latter. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
