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[PATCH net-next] net: phylink: clarify where phylink should be used

From: Russell King <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-14 09:44:59
Also in: linux-doc
Subsystem: documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
---
 Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst b/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst
index 91446b431b70..a5e00a159d21 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Overview
 ========
 
 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.
-- 
2.7.4
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