From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 1/2] phylib: add device reset GPIO support Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 11:32:47 -0700 Message-ID: <5732294F.3060606@gmail.com> References: <81129033.NXiOLTg1so@wasted.cogentembedded.com> <3641492.klKRrvS8tr@wasted.cogentembedded.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov , grant.likely@linaro.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, frowand.list@gmail.com, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.220.45]:34881 "EHLO mail-pa0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751642AbcEJScu (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2016 14:32:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3641492.klKRrvS8tr@wasted.cogentembedded.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/28/2016 03:12 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > The PHY devices sometimes do have their reset signal (maybe even power > supply?) tied to some GPIO and sometimes it also does happen that a boot > loader does not leave it deasserted. So far this issue has been attacked > from (as I believe) a wrong angle: by teaching the MAC driver to manipulate > the GPIO in question; that solution, when applied to the device trees, led > to adding the PHY reset GPIO properties to the MAC device node, with one > exception: Cadence MACB driver which could handle the "reset-gpios" prop > in a PHY device subnode. I believe that the correct approach is to teach > the 'phylib' to get the MDIO device reset GPIO from the device tree node > corresponding to this device -- which this patch is doing... > > Note that I had to modify the AT803x PHY driver as it would stop working > otherwise as it made use of the reset GPIO for its own purposes... > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov This looks good to me: Acked-by: Florian Fainelli Can you follow up with changes in phy_{suspend,resume} if that is also an use case that you have? -- Florian