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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: "Sebastian Frias" <sf84@laposte.net>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>,
	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: Request 'reset' GPIO only for AT8030 PHY
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:42:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F2F189.1030003@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F274A5.6030502@laposte.net>

Hello.

On 03/23/2016 01:49 PM, Sebastian Frias wrote:

> This removes the dependency on GPIOLIB for non faulty PHYs.
>
> Indeed, without this patch, if GPIOLIB is not selected
> devm_gpiod_get_optional() will return -ENOSYS and the driver probe
> call will fail, regardless of the actual PHY hardware.
>
> Out of the 3 PHYs supported by this driver (AT8030, AT8031, AT8035),
> only AT8030 presents the issues that commit 13a56b449325 ("net: phy:
> at803x: Add support for hardware reset") attempts to work-around by
> using a 'reset' GPIO line.
>
> Hence, only AT8030 should depend on GPIOLIB operating properly.
>
> Fixes: 13a56b449325 ("net: phy: at803x: Add support for hardware reset")
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>
[...]

    What I don't understand is why the link_change_notify() method ptr is 
populated for all 3 supported chips while only being needed on 8030...

MBR, Sergei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-23 19:42 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
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 [this message]
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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