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| author |   Yisen.Zhuang\(Zhuangyuzeng\) <Yisen.Zhuang@huawei.com> | 2016-04-23 17:05:16 +0800 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-04-26 01:09:18 -0400 |
| commit | c132cdccb71ee000d6456ec63acdf0535b5f35da (patch) | |
| tree | 1559e47ed162bde8c6b9b90e6dba7a8f0b4b2e18 /Documentation | |
| parent | Documentation: Bindings: Update DT binding for separating dsaf dev support (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c132cdccb71ee000d6456ec63acdf0535b5f35da.tar.xz linux-dev-c132cdccb71ee000d6456ec63acdf0535b5f35da.zip | |
Documentation: Bindings: add port-idx-in-ae for enet node
This patch adds description for port-idx-in-ae attribute.
Signed-off-by: Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt index e6a9d1c30878..b9ff4ba6454e 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt @@ -36,6 +36,34 @@ Required properties: | | | | | | external port + This attribute is remained for compatible purpose. It is not recommended to + use it in new code. + +- port-idx-in-ae: is the index of port provided by AE. + In NIC mode of DSAF, all 6 PHYs of service DSAF are taken as ethernet ports + to the CPU. The port-idx-in-ae can be 0 to 5. Here is the diagram: + +-----+---------------+ + | CPU | + +-+-+-+---+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + | | | | | | | | + debug debug service + port port port + (0) (0) (0-5) + + In Switch mode of DSAF, all 6 PHYs of service DSAF are taken as physical + ports connected to a LAN Switch while the CPU side assume itself have one + single NIC connected to this switch. In this case, the port-idx-in-ae + will be 0 only. + +-----+-----+------+------+ + | CPU | + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + | | service| port(0) + debug debug +------------+ + port port | switch | + (0) (0) +-+-+-+-+-+-++ + | | | | | | + external port + - local-mac-address: mac addr of the ethernet interface Example: @@ -43,6 +71,6 @@ Example: ethernet@0{ compatible = "hisilicon,hns-nic-v1"; ae-handle = <&dsaf0>; - port-id = <0>; + port-idx-in-ae = <0>; local-mac-address = [a2 14 e4 4b 56 76]; }; |