From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>,
fabio.estevam@freescale.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: Add "phy-reset-active-low" property to DT
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:47:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14388522.9LWflTAYzq@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160208215138.GB13673@lunn.ch>
On Monday 08 February 2016 22:51:38 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:46:42PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 08 February 2016 21:21:13 Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > > We need that for a custom hardware that needs the reverse reset
> > > sequence.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
> > >
> >
> > Why can't this be specified in the gpios property?
>
> Backwards compatibility. The flag has always been ignored until now,
> yet various DTs have a flag value which are active low. If suddenly it
> worked, various boards would break
Ok, I see.
Arnd
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 20:21 [PATCH] net: fec: Add "phy-reset-active-low" property to DT Bernhard Walle
[not found] ` <1454962873-1941-1-git-send-email-bernhard-X9USDgGjgfuzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-08 21:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-08 21:51 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-09 14:47 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-02-08 21:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-16 20:17 ` David Miller
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2016-03-01 17:16 Troy Kisky
2016-03-02 20:05 ` Bernhard Walle
2016-03-02 20:08 ` Fabio Estevam
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