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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: timur@codeaurora.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: qcom/emac: do not reset the EMAC during initialization
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:00:31 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170623.140031.865751442887165393.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498154732-19854-3-git-send-email-timur@codeaurora.org>

From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:05:31 -0500

> It doesn't make sense to reset the EMAC in the middle of initializing
> it during the probe.
> 
> Tested-by: Richard Ruigrok <rruigrok@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>

Why not?

What if the boot loader or something else left the chip in
a weird state?

I'm not applying this.

If it's correct, the explanation in this commit message need
to be imporved.  The change must be better justified.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-23 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-22 18:05 [PATCH 0/3] net: qcom/emac: various minor improvements Timur Tabi
2017-06-22 18:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: qcom/emac: add shutdown function Timur Tabi
2017-06-22 18:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: qcom/emac: do not reset the EMAC during initialization Timur Tabi
2017-06-23 18:00   ` David Miller [this message]
2017-06-23 18:37     ` Timur Tabi
2017-06-23 18:54       ` David Miller
2017-06-22 18:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: qcom/emac: add support for emulation systems Timur Tabi

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