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| author | Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> | 2013-04-08 02:09:59 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-04-08 16:55:27 -0400 |
| commit | 49cfbf675cd18330cef3c4613e890b0044510e95 (patch) | |
| tree | 988eb3969aae62724a11d3fc752c367f7c1878f8 /Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | |
| parent | 4d8f0825475ae7d48f4c5ed2fb85ea7e93212085 (diff) | |
stmmac: review driver documentation
This patch reviews the driver documentation file;
for example, there were some new fields (in the driver
module parameter section) and the ptp files were
not documented.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt index 8efe0b3c8b83..654d2e55c8cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver -Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd +Copyright (C) 2007-2013 STMicroelectronics Ltd Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC (i.e. 7xxx/5xxx SoCs), SPEAr (arm), Loongson1B (mips) and XLINX XC2V3000 FF1152AMT0221 D1215994A VIRTEX FPGA board. -DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.60a (and older) and DWC Ether +DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.70a (and older) and DWC Ether MAC 10/100 Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing this driver. This driver supports both the platform bus and PCI. @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH: watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds); flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off]; pause: Flow Control Pause Time; + eee_timer: tx EEE timer; + chain_mode: select chain mode instead of ring. 3) Command line options Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using: @@ -164,12 +166,12 @@ Where: o bus_setup: perform HW setup of the bus. For example, on some ST platforms this field is used to configure the AMBA bridge to generate more efficient STBus traffic. - o init/exit: callbacks used for calling a custom initialisation; + o init/exit: callbacks used for calling a custom initialization; this is sometime necessary on some platforms (e.g. ST boxes) where the HW needs to have set some PIO lines or system cfg registers. o custom_cfg/custom_data: this is a custom configuration that can be passed - while initialising the resources. + while initializing the resources. o bsp_priv: another private poiter. For MDIO bus The we have: @@ -273,6 +275,8 @@ reset procedure etc). o norm_desc.c: functions for handling normal descriptors; o chain_mode.c/ring_mode.c:: functions to manage RING/CHAINED modes; o mmc_core.c/mmc.h: Management MAC Counters; + o stmmac_hwtstamp.c: HW timestamp support for PTP + o stmmac_ptp.c: PTP 1588 clock 5) Debug Information |