On Thursday, July 14, 2016 5:15:06 PM CEST Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 04:33:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:29:43 PM CEST Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > > +
> > > + - micrel,fiber-mode: If present the PHY is configured to operate in
> > > fiber mode
> > > +
> > > + Some PHYs, such as the KSZ8041FTL variant, support fiber mode,
> > > enabled
> > > + by the FXEN boot strapping pin. It can't be determined from the
> > > PHY
> > > + registers whether the PHY is in fiber mode, so this boolean
> > > device tree
> > > + property can be used to describe it.
> > > +
> > > + In fiber mode, auto-negotiation is disabled and the PHY can only
> > > work in
> > > + 100base-fx (full and half duplex) modes.
> > >
> >
> > Could the generic "phy-mode" property used for this, to avoid the need for
> > definingn a custom property?
>
> Hi Arnd
>
> phy-mode is about the link between the MAC and the PHY. This property
> is about the link between the PHY and its peer PHY.
>
Ok, got it.
Arnd
