Re: [PATCH net-next v1 3/3] net: phy: micrel: add coma mode GPIO

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 4/27/22 15:17, Michael Walle wrote:
> Am 2022-04-28 00:12, schrieb Florian Fainelli:
>> On 4/27/22 15:08, Michael Walle wrote:
>>> Am 2022-04-28 00:06, schrieb Florian Fainelli:
>>>> On 4/27/2022 2:44 PM, Michael Walle wrote:
>>>>> The LAN8814 has a coma mode pin which puts the PHY into isolate and
>>>>> power-dowm mode. Unfortunately, the mode cannot be disabled by a
>>> s/dowm/down/
>>>
>>>>> register. Usually, the input pin has a pull-up and connected to a GPIO
>>>>> which can then be used to disable the mode. Try to get the GPIO and
>>>>> deassert it.
>>>>
>>>> Poor choice of word, how about deep sleep, dormant, super isolate?
>>>
>>> Which one do you mean? Super isolate sounded like broadcom wording ;)
>>
>> Coma is not a great term to use IMHO. Yes Super isolate (tm) is a
>> Broadcom thing, and you can come out of super isolate mode with
>> register writes, so maybe not the best suggestion.
> 
> I didn't come up with that name. It's all in the datasheets and it's
> actually already used grep for "COMA_MODE" in phy/mscc. (Yes on that
> one you can actually disable it with register access..). Even if
> it is not a great name (which I agree), I'd use the same naming as
> the datasheet and esp. the pin name.

OK then, makes sense to use the datasheet name.
-- 
Florian