From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtpout-03.galae.net (smtpout-03.galae.net [185.246.85.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F32503D411D for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.246.85.4 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790516246; cv=none; b=DXWGByFLSmHI1jv/bZmy0Ybq2xcmv9eWzSSeWfNuvdol2PRe8grLmnnA1ChCwHCSltBYl+7URSA7t/V6D/kwOgAoryHTOQark+b0Hz6qB6elKTI0iLafzpESFnoPmA0feqbjVNglHfSQ5zl8dl3nKoRIuR2HJggFnXVzgu3ulMU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790516246; c=relaxed/simple; bh=y2XQNiedrD/GbweFwiRwG63lCrwaAPfIBOifZlSTGTg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=Z6yBptT93KNq7pSDPOv24Pcivt/AC5Gbtcj7LnL43G3jSAaLo+6TDc6AL2kCvdgKXNF49qk94xoZP5cjukOsAgEJbmdtmrL1vbgocBrgOKAI6ErvFF4i6984QD4TclgP9oRhaZch4k32McKZ1n4t4QGKLXJ3OYgknVadt02Lbw4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bootlin.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.b=yuji6sq8; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.246.85.4 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=bootlin.com header.i=@bootlin.com header.b="yuji6sq8" Received: from smtpout-01.galae.net (smtpout-01.galae.net [212.83.139.233]) by smtpout-03.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C2184E41021; Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.galae.net (mail.galae.net [212.83.136.155]) by smtpout-01.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5048F604FF; Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id 93528102F1E66; Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:37:15 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=dkim; t=1790516239; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:cc:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references; bh=Z13EOcnX8B1/8BD2O0e2wgJx2zHuu7HyJIbYUX/IvJ8=; b=yuji6sq87xQa34o57ctC8bpZqRxm3Xg83qGNyrkZi4fbw28Y93IKuTFZNxzAmiELimkyw4 9EpJEJv/pA9Vezd19TwJAq6fXk9crOgjZelrj/nVYtG/9iqTfWg8Y5gE1dCK+tXjkYn7W4 xS5e+3bGwLlIyIPyy3aezs/TfQEAVA9wJjjYHABo1x9XS502IvGmrzyHYjysuzuh2ouhsz C4zhuc5bz5w3tj6Z/rHwqAfUwM4SJmUJzrnbFGHUWyAVu2j+6veNpFB+Zy2aJQmM+KJoo5 Yvo0Ug2l9dhlBfYYzZJjeDcWvJs04dEze9bpcT52ENyyBmfA6z48sVTpn/VAwA== From: Maxime Chevallier To: davem@davemloft.net, Andrew Lunn , Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , Heiner Kallweit Cc: Maxime Chevallier , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, Christophe Leroy , Herve Codina , Florian Fainelli , Vladimir Oltean , =?UTF-8?q?K=C3=B6ry=20Maincent?= , =?UTF-8?q?Marek=20Beh=C3=BAn?= , Oleksij Rempel , =?UTF-8?q?Nicol=C3=B2=20Veronese?= , Simon Horman , mwojtas@chromium.org, Romain Gantois , Daniel Golle , Dimitri Fedrau , Frank Wunderlich , Pietro Ameruoso , Aleksei Sviridkin Subject: [PATCH net-next v18 10/10] Documentation: networking: Update the phy_port infrastructure description Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:36:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20260927133619.955236-11-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: <20260927133619.955236-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> References: <20260927133619.955236-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 With SFP now properly supported with phy_port, add some details in the documentation. Fix a typo along the way (driver -> driven). Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Tested-by: Aleksei Sviridkin Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier --- Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst b/Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst index 6e28d9094bce..2a9b1ec93b70 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/phy-port.rst @@ -99,13 +99,29 @@ will eventually be able to report its own ksettings:: (_____)-----| Port | +------+ +SFP ports +========= + +SFP interfaces involve 2 distinct components, each represented by +a :c:type:`struct phy_port ` instance : + + - The SFP cage itself is a :c:type:`struct phy_port `. It's special + in that it's not an MDI interface, but rather a hot-pluggable MII. + The :c:type:`struct phy_port ` associated to it lists the different + MII interfaces we can use on the cage. + + - The SFP module, when inserted, will also be associated to a + :c:type:`struct phy_port `, that represents the various linkmodes + that it gives access to. The module's :c:type:`struct phy_port ` + doesn't supersede the cage's port, it references it through + the :c:type:`struct phy_port ` :c:member:`upstream_port` field. + Next steps ========== -As of writing this documentation, only ports controlled by PHY devices are -supported. The next steps will be to add the Netlink API to expose these -to userspace and add support for raw ports (controlled by some firmware, and directly -managed by the NIC driver). +As of writing this documentation, the port's presence and information can only +be queried, and it's not possible to change any of the port's settings or select +which one should be used. Another parallel task is the introduction of a MII muxing framework to allow the -control of non-PHY driver multi-port setups. +control of non-PHY driven multi-port setups. -- 2.55.0