[PATCH net-next 1/4] dt-bindings: net: document st,phy-wol property

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Mon Jul 21 06:18:16 PDT 2025


On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 02:10:48PM +0200, Gatien CHEVALLIER wrote:
> Hello Krzysztof,
> 
> On 7/21/25 13:30, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 21/07/2025 13:14, Gatien Chevallier wrote:
> > > The "st,phy-wol" property can be set to use the wakeup capability of
> > > the PHY instead of the MAC.
> > 
> > 
> > And why would that be property of a SoC or board? Word "can" suggests
> > you are documenting something which exists, but this does not exist.
> Can you elaborate a bit more on the "not existing" part please?
> 
> For the WoL from PHY to be supported, the PHY line that is raised
> (On nPME pin for this case) when receiving a wake up event has to be
> wired to a wakeup event input of the Extended interrupt and event
> controller(EXTI), and that's implementation dependent.

How does this differ from normal interrupts from the PHY? Isn't the
presence of an interrupt in DT sufficient to indicate the PHY can wake
the system?

	Andrew



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