Commit 67e80b99 authored Sep 14, 2019 by Russell King Committed by David S. Miller Sep 16, 2019

net: phylink: clarify where phylink should be used



Update the phylink documentation to make it clear that phylink is
designed to be used on the MAC facing side of the link, rather than
between a SFP and PHY.

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>

parent 0a75709b

Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst

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		========

		phylink is a mechanism to support hot-pluggable networking modules
		without needing to re-initialise the adapter on hot-plug events.
		directly connected to a MAC without needing to re-initialise the
		adapter on hot-plug events.

		phylink supports conventional phylib-based setups, fixed link setups
		and SFP (Small Formfactor Pluggable) modules at present.

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