Hi,
Just a couple of nits below:
On 2/8/21 7:12 AM, Calvin Johnson wrote:
Introduce ACPI mechanism to get PHYs registered on a MDIO bus and
provide them to be connected to MAC.
Describe properties "phy-handle" and "phy-mode".
Signed-off-by: Calvin Johnson <redacted>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=========================
+MDIO bus and PHYs in ACPI
+=========================
+
+The PHYs on an MDIO bus [1] are probed and registered using
+fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy().
+
+Later, for connecting these PHYs to MAC, the PHYs registered on the
to a MAC,
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+MDIO bus have to be referenced.
+
+This document introduces two _DSD properties that are to be used
+for connecting PHYs on the MDIO bus [3] to the MAC layer.
+
+These properties are defined in accordance with the "Device
+Properties UUID For _DSD" [2] document and the
+daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301 UUID must be used in the Device
+Data Descriptors containing them.
+
+phy-handle
+----------
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+
+Later, during the MAC driver initialization, the registered PHY devices
+have to be retrieved from the MDIO bus. For this, the MAC driver need
needs
+references to the previously registered PHYs which are provided
+as device object references (e.g. \_SB.MDI0.PHY1).
thanks.
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~Randy