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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "BSHARA, Said" <saeedb@amazon.com>
Cc: "f.fainelli@gmail.com" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"Chocron, Jonathan" <jonnyc@amazon.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com"
	<antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>,
	"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com"
	<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] net: ethernet: add the Alpine Ethernet driver
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:22:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171105152227.GY24320@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509884946.21689.10.camel@amazon.com>

> the problem is that physical MDIO controller actually belongs to one of
> the pcie devices and it's not independent interface, as the registers
> address belongs to that pcie device, also, a reset to that pcie device
> will reset the "shared" mdio controller.

What is the implications of resetting the mdio controller?

It still seems like you should only register one MDIO device with
linux, and then use phy-handle properties to point to the PHYs on the
bus.

       Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-05 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-03 18:12 [PATCH net-next 0/8] ARM: Alpine: Ethernet support Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] alpine: add I/O fabric interrupt controller (iofic) helpers Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] soc: alpine: add udma helpers Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] pci: add Annapurna Labs PCI id Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] net: ethernet: add the Alpine Ethernet driver Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 20:58   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-07  7:39     ` Chocron, Jonathan
2017-08-27 13:47     ` Chocron, Jonathan
2017-08-28 18:09       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-02 16:05         ` Chocron, Jonathan
2017-11-02 18:19           ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-05 12:29             ` BSHARA, Said
2017-11-05 15:22               ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: ethernet: annapurna: add statistics helper Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 19:34   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-03 21:24   ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] net: ethernet: annapurna: add wol helpers to the Alpine driver Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 18:21   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-02-06 11:35     ` David Laight
2017-02-06 12:02       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-02-10 10:12       ` Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] net: ethernet: annapurna: add eee " Antoine Tenart
2017-02-03 19:01   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-03 18:12 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] net: ethernet: annapurna: add the coalesce " Antoine Tenart

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