From 3d055d8d1c24093bdd40e000570a59b841c2bb0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Fainelli Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:27:40 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3