Re: [PATCH 4/9] PCI: mvebu: add support for reset on GPIO

Sascha Hauer
2013-08-13T09:59:59Z

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:30:30AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Thierry Reding,
>
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:09:56 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
>
> > > +- reset-gpios: optional gpio to PERST#
> > > +- reset-delay-ms: delay in ms to wait after reset de-assertion
> >
> > I remember some recent discussion about this, and we now have this reset
> > framework, so perhaps it makes more sense to use the reset binding for
> > this? Cc'ing Stephen (as part of the device tree bindings maintainers
> > team) who was involved in that recent reset bindings discussion.
>
> I also thought about this, but the reset framework seems to be designed
> for "reset controller" IPs, i.e special IPs that are controlling reset
> signals. Looking at Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/reset.txt,
> I'm not sure to see how this would apply to GPIO-controlled reset
> signals.

Search for:

[PATCH v10] reset: Add driver for gpio-controlled reset pins

Which aims to be a solution for what you need here.

Sascha

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