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| author | Martin Blumenstingl <[email protected]> | 2017-01-22 16:41:32 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <[email protected]> | 2017-01-24 18:31:02 +0000 |
| commit | 7630ea4bda18df2ee1c64dfdca1724a9cc32f920 (patch) | |
| tree | ebb096b59a04490bf57ee7af007cb41af8a5fbab /net/tipc | |
| parent | net: phy: marvell: Add Wake from LAN support for 88E1510 PHY (diff) | |
| download | kernel-7630ea4bda18df2ee1c64dfdca1724a9cc32f920.tar.gz kernel-7630ea4bda18df2ee1c64dfdca1724a9cc32f920.zip | |
Documentation: net: phy: improve explanation when to specify the PHY ID
The old description basically read like "ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB" can
be specified when you know the actual PHY ID. However, specifying this
has a side-effect: it forces Linux to bind to a certain PHY driver (the
one that matches the ID given in the compatible string), ignoring the ID
which is reported by the actual PHY.
Whenever a device is shipped with (multiple) different PHYs during it's
production lifetime then explicitly specifying
"ethernet-phy-idAAAA.BBBB" could break certain revisions of that device.
Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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