Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: micrel: Make the GPIO to be non-exclusive

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 09:28:27PM +0200, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> The same GPIO line can be shared by multiple phys for the coma mode pin.
> If that is the case then, all the other phys that share the same line
> will failed to be probed because the access to the gpio line is not
> non-exclusive.
> Fix this by making access to the gpio line to be nonexclusive using flag
> GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_NONEXCLUSIVE. This allows all the other PHYs to be
> probed.
> 
> Fixes: 738871b09250ee ("net: phy: micrel: add coma mode GPIO")
> Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c b/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
> index e78d0bf69bc3..ea72ff64ad33 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/micrel.c
> @@ -2878,7 +2878,8 @@ static int lan8814_release_coma_mode(struct phy_device *phydev)
>  	struct gpio_desc *gpiod;
>  
>  	gpiod = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&phydev->mdio.dev, "coma-mode",
> -					GPIOD_OUT_HIGH_OPEN_DRAIN);
> +					GPIOD_OUT_HIGH_OPEN_DRAIN |
> +					GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_NONEXCLUSIVE);

I would suggest putting a comment here. You are assuming the driver
never gains a lan8814_take_coma_mode() when the PHY is put into
suspend, since it sounds like that will put all PHYs on the shared
GPIO into coma mode.

     Andrew