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There exists several examples today of devices that embed an ethernet PHY or PCS directly inside an SoC. In this situation, either the device is controlled through a vendor-specific register set, or sometimes exposes the standard 802.3 registers that are typically accessed over MDIO. As phylib and phylink are designed to use mdiodevices, this driver allows creating a virtual MDIO bus, that translates mdiodev register accesses to regmap accesses. The reason we use regmap is because there are at least 3 such devices known today, 2 of them are Altera TSE PCS's, memory-mapped, exposed with a 4-byte stride in stmmac's dwmac-socfpga variant, and a 2-byte stride in altera-tse. The other one (nxp,sja1110-base-tx-mdio) is exposed over SPI. Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.