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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: micrel: Add KSZ8041FTL fiber mode support
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:33:26 +0200
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On Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:29:43 PM CEST Philipp Zabel wrote:
> +
> + - micrel,fiber-mode: If present the PHY is configured to operate in fiber mode
> +
> +       Some PHYs, such as the KSZ8041FTL variant, support fiber mode, enabled
> +       by the FXEN boot strapping pin. It can't be determined from the PHY
> +       registers whether the PHY is in fiber mode, so this boolean device tree
> +       property can be used to describe it.
> +
> +       In fiber mode, auto-negotiation is disabled and the PHY can only work in
> +       100base-fx (full and half duplex) modes.
> 

Could the generic "phy-mode" property used for this, to avoid the need for
definingn a custom property?

	Arnd