linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: lantiq: gphy: Drop reboot/remove reset asserts

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Date:   Mon, 21 May 2018 17:39:33 +0100
From:   James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
To:     Mathias Kresin <dev@...sin.me>
Cc:     john@...ozen.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com,
        hauke@...ke-m.de, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: lantiq: gphy: Drop reboot/remove reset asserts

On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Mathias Kresin wrote:
> While doing a global software reset, these bits are not cleared and let
> some bootloader fail to initialise the GPHYs. The bootloader don't
> expect the GPHYs in reset, as they aren't during power on.
> 
> The asserts were a workaround for a wrong syscon-reboot mask. With a
> mask set which includes the GPHY resets, these resets aren't required
> any more.
> 
> Fixes: 126534141b45 ("MIPS: lantiq: Add a GPHY driver which uses the RCU syscon-mfd")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.14+
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@...sin.me>

Applied for 4.17. Thanks for the acks/reviews folk!

Thanks
James

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