From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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Cc: "Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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"Christophe Leroy" <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
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Subject: [PATCH net-next v12 10/10] Documentation: networking: Update the phy_port infrastructure description
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:39:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260615153907.862987-11-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260615153907.862987-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
With SFP now properly supported with phy_port, add some details in the
documentation. Fix a typo along the way (driver -> driven).
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
---
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..73ea06db0fd9 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 <phy_port>` instance :
+
+ - The SFP cage itself is a :c:type:`struct phy_port <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 <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 <phy_port>`, that represents the various linkmodes
+ that it gives access to. The module's :c:type:`struct phy_port <phy_port>`
+ doesn't supersedes the cage's port, it references it through
+ the :c:type:`struct phy_port <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.
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-15 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-15 15:38 [PATCH net-next v12 00/10] net: phy_port: SFP modules representation and phy_port listing Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:38 ` [PATCH net-next v12 01/10] net: phy: phy_link_topology: Add a helper for opportunistic alloc Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:38 ` [PATCH net-next v12 02/10] net: phy: phy_link_topology: Track ports in phy_link_topology Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:38 ` [PATCH net-next v12 03/10] net: phylink: Register a phy_port for MAC-driven SFP cages Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` [PATCH net-next v12 04/10] net: phy: Create SFP phy_port before registering upstream Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` [PATCH net-next v12 05/10] net: phy: Represent PHY-less SFP modules with phy_port Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` [PATCH net-next v12 06/10] net: phy: phy_port: Store information about a port's upstream Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` [PATCH net-next v12 07/10] net: phy: phy_link_topology: Add a helper to retrieve ports Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` [PATCH net-next v12 08/10] netlink: specs: Add ethernet port listing with ethtool Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` [PATCH net-next v12 09/10] net: ethtool: Introduce ethtool command to list ports Maxime Chevallier
2026-06-15 15:39 ` Maxime Chevallier [this message]
2026-06-15 16:04 ` [PATCH net-next v12 00/10] net: phy_port: SFP modules representation and phy_port listing Jakub Kicinski
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