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docs: networking: phy: clarify abbreviation "PAL"
authorMarkus Heidelberg <m.heidelberg@cab.de>
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:15:20 +0000 (15:15 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:10:19 +0000 (12:10 -0700)
It is suddenly used in the text without introduction, so the meaning
might have been unclear to readers.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <m.heidelberg@cab.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250926131520.222346-1-m.heidelberg@cab.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Documentation/networking/phy.rst

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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ sometimes quite different) ethernet controllers connected to the same
 management bus, it is difficult to ensure safe use of the bus.
 
 Since the PHYs are devices, and the management busses through which they are
-accessed are, in fact, busses, the PHY Abstraction Layer treats them as such.
+accessed are, in fact, busses, the PHY Abstraction Layer (PAL) treats them as such.
 In doing so, it has these goals:
 
 #. Increase code-reuse