Documentation: Bindings: add port-idx-in-ae for enet node
authorYisen.Zhuang\(Zhuangyuzeng\) <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com>
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:05:16 +0000 (17:05 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:09:18 +0000 (01:09 -0400)
This patch adds description for port-idx-in-ae attribute.

Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt

index e6a9d1c..b9ff4ba 100644 (file)
@@ -36,6 +36,34 @@ Required properties:
                        | | | | | |
                       external port
 
+  This attribute is remained for compatible purpose. It is not recommended to
+  use it in new code.
+
+- port-idx-in-ae: is the index of port provided by AE.
+  In NIC mode of DSAF, all 6 PHYs of service DSAF are taken as ethernet ports
+  to the CPU. The port-idx-in-ae can be 0 to 5. Here is the diagram:
+            +-----+---------------+
+            |            CPU      |
+            +-+-+-+---+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+              |    |   | | | | | |
+           debug debug   service
+           port  port     port
+           (0)   (0)     (0-5)
+
+  In Switch mode of DSAF, all 6 PHYs of service DSAF are taken as physical
+  ports connected to a LAN Switch while the CPU side assume itself have one
+  single NIC connected to this switch. In this case, the port-idx-in-ae
+  will be 0 only.
+            +-----+-----+------+------+
+            |                CPU      |
+            +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+              |    |     service| port(0)
+            debug debug  +------------+
+            port  port   |   switch   |
+            (0)   (0)    +-+-+-+-+-+-++
+                          | | | | | |
+                         external port
+
 - local-mac-address: mac addr of the ethernet interface
 
 Example:
@@ -43,6 +71,6 @@ Example:
        ethernet@0{
                compatible = "hisilicon,hns-nic-v1";
                ae-handle = <&dsaf0>;
-               port-id = <0>;
+               port-idx-in-ae = <0>;
                local-mac-address = [a2 14 e4 4b 56 76];
        };