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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Cc: Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
	Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@gmail.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: don't depend on GPIOLIB
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:11:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160318201153.GR4292@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56EC5788.3030509@free.fr>

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:31:20PM +0100, Mason wrote:
> On 18/03/2016 20:12, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Sebastian Frias wrote:
> > 
> >> What would you think of making at803x_link_change_notify() print a
> >> message every time it should do a reset but does not has a way to do it?
> > 
> > Then this question is obsolete because the device doesn't probe.
> 
> I don't understand this statement.
> 
> What does it mean for a question to be obsolete?

If the driver doesn't probe because it cannot control the reset line,
you don't need to think about how it should behave in
at803x_link_change_notify without control of the reset line, because
this code isn't reached then.

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-18 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 17:25 [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: don't depend on GPIOLIB Sebastian Frias
2016-03-18 12:12 ` Mason
2016-03-18 12:54 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-18 15:56   ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-18 19:12     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-18 19:31       ` Mason
2016-03-18 20:11         ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2016-03-18 20:44           ` Mason
2016-03-19 10:01             ` Måns Rullgård
2016-03-21 12:48       ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-21 13:54         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-21 15:36           ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-21 20:12             ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-22 14:34               ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-22 19:42                 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-23 10:12                   ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-23 10:49                     ` [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: Request 'reset' GPIO only for AT8030 PHY Sebastian Frias
2016-03-23 17:40                       ` David Miller
2016-03-23 19:42                       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-03-24  9:55                         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-24 10:10                           ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-24 13:40                             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-03-23 10:17                   ` [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: don't depend on GPIOLIB Mason
2016-03-23 10:39                     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-03-23 10:55                       ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-22 14:34     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-21 20:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-03-21 20:41   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-03-21 21:56     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-03-22 14:53     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-03-22 14:39   ` Sebastian Frias

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