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stmmac: review driver documentation 

This patch reviews the driver documentation file;
for example, there were some new fields (in the driver
module parameter section) and the ptp files were
not documented.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Giuseppe CAVALLARO 2013-04-08 02:09:59 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
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Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver
Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd
Copyright (C) 2007-2013 STMicroelectronics Ltd
Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC
(i.e. 7xxx/5xxx SoCs), SPEAr (arm), Loongson1B (mips) and XLINX XC2V3000
FF1152AMT0221 D1215994A VIRTEX FPGA board.
DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.60a (and older) and DWC Ether
DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.70a (and older) and DWC Ether
MAC 10/100 Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing this driver.
This driver supports both the platform bus and PCI.
@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH:
watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds);
flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off];
pause: Flow Control Pause Time;
eee_timer: tx EEE timer;
chain_mode: select chain mode instead of ring.
3) Command line options
Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
@ -164,12 +166,12 @@ Where:
o bus_setup: perform HW setup of the bus. For example, on some ST platforms
this field is used to configure the AMBA bridge to generate more
efficient STBus traffic.
o init/exit: callbacks used for calling a custom initialisation;
o init/exit: callbacks used for calling a custom initialization;
this is sometime necessary on some platforms (e.g. ST boxes)
where the HW needs to have set some PIO lines or system cfg
registers.
o custom_cfg/custom_data: this is a custom configuration that can be passed
while initialising the resources.
while initializing the resources.
o bsp_priv: another private poiter.
For MDIO bus The we have:
@ -273,6 +275,8 @@ reset procedure etc).
o norm_desc.c: functions for handling normal descriptors;
o chain_mode.c/ring_mode.c:: functions to manage RING/CHAINED modes;
o mmc_core.c/mmc.h: Management MAC Counters;
o stmmac_hwtstamp.c: HW timestamp support for PTP
o stmmac_ptp.c: PTP 1588 clock
5) Debug Information