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net: phylink: clarify where phylink should be used
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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>
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Russell King authored and David S. Miller committed Sep 16, 2019
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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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