linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4.1] phylib: Add device reset GPIO support

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Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2017 10:53:26 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@...data.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.1] phylib: Add device reset GPIO support

Hi Sergei,

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> wrote:
> On 12/04/2017 03:35 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
>> 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 -- it made use of the reset GPIO for its own purposes...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>> [geert: Propagate actual errors from fwnode_get_named_gpiod()]
>> [geert: Avoid destroying initial setup]
>> [geert: Consolidate GPIO descriptor acquiring code]
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
>
> [...]
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
>> index 2df7b62c1a36811e..8f8b7747c54bc478 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
>
> [...]
>>
>> @@ -48,9 +49,26 @@
>>     int mdiobus_register_device(struct mdio_device *mdiodev)
>>   {
>> +       struct gpio_desc *gpiod = NULL;
>> +
>>         if (mdiodev->bus->mdio_map[mdiodev->addr])
>>                 return -EBUSY;
>>   +     /* Deassert the optional reset signal */
>
>
>    Umm, but why deassert it here for such a short time?

That's a consequence of moving it from drivers/of/of_mdio.c to here.
Not that it was deasserted that much longer in drivers/of/of_mdio.c, though...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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