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Message-ID: <2693723.gBjS0iQk4I@diego>
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:56:04 +0100
From:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	Caesar Wang <wxt@...k-chips.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, keescook@...gle.com,
	leozwang@...gle.com, Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] net: arc_emac: support the phy reset for emac driver

Hi Caesar,

Am Freitag, 11. März 2016, 16:47:59 schrieb Sergei Shtylyov:
> On 3/11/2016 1:55 PM, Caesar Wang wrote:
> > This patch adds to support the emac phy reset.
> > 
> > 1) phy-reset-gpios:
> > The phy-reset-gpios is an optional property for arc emac device tree boot.
> > Change the binding document to match the driver code.
> > 
> > 2) phy-reset-duration:
> > Different boards may require different phy reset duration. Add property
> > phy-reset-duration for device tree probe, so that the boards that need
> > a longer reset duration can specify it in their device tree.
> > 
> > 3) phy-reset-active-high:
> > We need that for a custom hardware that needs the reverse reset sequence.
> > 
> > Of course, this patch will fix the issue on
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8186801/.
> > 
> > In some cases, the emac couldn't work if you don't have reset the phy.
> > Let's add it to happy work.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Caesar Wang <wxt@...k-chips.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >   drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c | 41
> >   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c index 6446af1..42384f6a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c
> > @@ -764,6 +764,45 @@ static const struct net_device_ops
> > arc_emac_netdev_ops = {> 
> >   #endif
> >   };
> > 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> > +static void emac_reset_phy(struct net_device *pdev)
> > +{
> > +	int err, phy_reset;
> > +	bool active_high = false;
> > +	int msec = 10;
> > +	struct device *dev = pdev->dev.parent;
> > +	struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
> > +
> > +	if (!np)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	of_property_read_u32(np, "phy-reset-duration", &msec);
> > +	/* A sane reset duration should not be longer than 1s */
> > +	if (msec > 1000)
> > +		msec = 1;
> > +
> > +	phy_reset = of_get_named_gpio(np, "phy-reset-gpios", 0);
> > +	if (!gpio_is_valid(phy_reset))
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	active_high = of_property_read_bool(np, "phy-reset-active-high");
> > +
> > +	err = devm_gpio_request_one(dev, phy_reset, active_high ?
> > +				    GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH : GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW,
> > +				    "phy-reset");
> > +	if (err) {
> > +		dev_err(dev, "failed to get phy-reset-gpios: %d\n", err);
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +	msleep(msec);
> > +	gpio_set_value_cansleep(phy_reset, !active_high);
> > +}
> 
> [...]
> 
>     Why not make it the mii_bus::reset() method? It gets called before the
> MDIO bus scan.

while meddling with the emac, I've built some sort of preliminary variant of
Sergei's suggestion at [0] - maybe you could take a look for some sort of
inspiration ;-) 

The code is lifted from the designware gmac driver, so the binding also is
similar.


Heiko


[0] https://github.com/mmind/linux-rockchip/commit/a943c588783438ff1c508dfa8c79f1709aa5775e