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@@ -11,24 +11,31 @@ Date: February 2014
KernelVersion: 3.15
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- Boolean value indicating whether the PHY device has
- any fixups registered against it (phy_register_fixup)
+ This attribute contains the boolean value whether a given PHY
+ device has had any "fixup" workaround running on it, encoded as
+ a boolean. This information is provided to help troubleshooting
+ PHY configurations.
What: /sys/class/mdio_bus/<bus>/<device>/phy_id
Date: November 2012
KernelVersion: 3.8
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- 32-bit hexadecimal value corresponding to the PHY device's OUI,
- model and revision number.
+ This attribute contains the 32-bit PHY Identifier as reported
+ by the device during bus enumeration, encoded in hexadecimal.
+ This ID is used to match the device with the appropriate
+ driver.
What: /sys/class/mdio_bus/<bus>/<device>/phy_interface
Date: February 2014
KernelVersion: 3.15
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- String value indicating the PHY interface, possible
- values are:.
+ This attribute contains the PHY interface as configured by the
+ Ethernet driver during bus enumeration, encoded in string.
+ This interface mode is used to configure the Ethernet MAC with the
+ appropriate mode for its data lines to the PHY hardware.
+ Possible values are:
<empty> (not available), mii, gmii, sgmii, tbi, rev-mii,
rmii, rgmii, rgmii-id, rgmii-rxid, rgmii-txid, rtbi, smii
xgmii, moca, qsgmii, trgmii, 1000base-x, 2500base-x, rxaui,