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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2017-12-29 12:46:22 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-01-02 15:00:49 -0500 |
| commit | 05ca1b327eed2b9abb48cbd013ca451032bd86b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9165b554e1beefd7229dcbfd946201e11f1e888f /drivers/net/phy | |
| parent | 3abbcccc6f318f858ffbd4e3d82839b66ff1b960 (diff) | |
net: phy: marvell10g: update header comments
Update header comments to indicate the newly found behaviour with XAUI
interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/marvell10g.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/marvell10g.c b/drivers/net/phy/marvell10g.c index f0cfba4e758b..37ba68d7c385 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/marvell10g.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/marvell10g.c @@ -6,12 +6,18 @@ * * There appears to be several different data paths through the PHY which * are automatically managed by the PHY. The following has been determined - * via observation and experimentation: + * via observation and experimentation for a setup using single-lane Serdes: * * SGMII PHYXS -- BASE-T PCS -- 10G PMA -- AN -- Copper (for <= 1G) * 10GBASE-KR PHYXS -- BASE-T PCS -- 10G PMA -- AN -- Copper (for 10G) * 10GBASE-KR PHYXS -- BASE-R PCS -- Fiber * + * With XAUI, observation shows: + * + * XAUI PHYXS -- <appropriate PCS as above> + * + * and no switching of the host interface mode occurs. + * * If both the fiber and copper ports are connected, the first to gain * link takes priority and the other port is completely locked out. */ |