net: document SMII and correct phylink's new validation mechanism
authorRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:11:17 +0000 (17:11 +0000)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:22:30 +0000 (19:22 -0800)
commitb9241f54138ca5af4d3c5ca6db56be83d7491508
tree20b311f2f7145d0f2406a7b49bd3c3315ea39c6e
parentbe0f6c4100acc38129c9578ddc11b6a9dd7fb4ef
net: document SMII and correct phylink's new validation mechanism

SMII has not been documented in the kernel, but information on this PHY
interface mode has been recently found. Document it, and correct the
recently introduced phylink handling for this interface mode.

Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/E1mmfVl-0075nP-14@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Documentation/networking/phy.rst
drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
include/linux/phy.h