Documentation: net: phy: Add a paragraph about pause frames/flow control
authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 02:45:13 +0000 (18:45 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:07:42 +0000 (16:07 -0500)
commit2fa3e25b454e267d8f55ee19c27be540495463e7
tree551af2ab98867240f91805588e163f197a464fed
parent527fd70e26e68d65a47e17e71f637dc42dbd26cc
Documentation: net: phy: Add a paragraph about pause frames/flow control

Describe that the Ethernet MAC controller is ultimately responsible for
dealing with proper pause frames/flow control advertisement and
enabling, and that it is therefore allowed to have it change
phydev->supported/advertising with SUPPORTED_Pause and
SUPPORTED_AsymPause.

Reviewed-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/phy.txt