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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 1/2] phylib: add device reset GPIO support
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 22:44:36 +0200
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> >Another issue is that on some boards we have one reset line tied to
> >multiple PHYs.How do we prevent multiple resets being taking place when each of
> >the PHYs are registered?
> 
>    My patch just doesn't address this case -- it's about the
> individual resets only.

This actually needs to be addresses a layer above. What you have is a
bus reset, not a device reset. So the gpio line is associated to the
mdio bus, not a PHY. Either your MDIO driver needs to handle the gpio
line, or in __mdio_register(), before it starts looking at the
children.

	Andrew