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net: phy: expose PHY device interface mode
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Expose the PHY device interface mode through sysfs since this is an
useful piece of information for knowing how the attached networking
device will have configured its transmit/receive path.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Florian Fainelli authored and David S. Miller committed Feb 13, 2014
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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-mdio
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by the device during bus enumeration, encoded in hexadecimal.
This ID is used to match the device with the appropriate
driver.

What: /sys/bus/mdio_bus/devices/.../phy_interface
Date: February 2014
KernelVersion: 3.15
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
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.
10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
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Expand Up @@ -432,8 +432,18 @@ phy_id_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(phy_id);

static ssize_t
phy_interface_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
struct phy_device *phydev = to_phy_device(dev);

return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", phy_modes(phydev->interface));
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(phy_interface);

static struct attribute *mdio_dev_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_phy_id.attr,
&dev_attr_phy_interface.attr,
NULL,
};
ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(mdio_dev);
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