netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] add enhancement into the existing reset flow

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:23:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sean.wang@...iatek.com
Cc:     john@...ozen.org, nbd@...nwrt.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, keyhaede@...il.com,
        objelf@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] add enhancement into the existing
 reset flow

From: <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:13:14 +0800

> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> 
> Current driver only resets DMA used by descriptor rings which
> can't guarantee it can recover all various kinds of fatal
> errors, so the patch
> 1) tries to reset the underlying hardware resource from scratch on
> Mediatek SoC required for ethernet running.
> 2) refactors code in order to the reusability of existing code.
> 3) considers handling for race condition between the reset flow and
> callbacks registered into core driver called about hardware accessing.
> 4) introduces power domain usage to hardware setup which leads to have
> cleanly and completely restore to the state as the initial.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - fix the build error with module built causing undefined symbol for
>   pinctrl_bind_pins, so using pinctrl_select_state instead accomplishes
>   the pin mux setup during the reset process.

Series applied, thanks.