linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/13] phy: qcom-qmp-pcie: drop bogus register update

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Message-ID: <YzVBmJ5EtZzkm4cD@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:56:24 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...ainline.org>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] phy: qcom-qmp-pcie: drop bogus register update

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:10:02PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On 28/09/2022 18:28, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Since commit 0d58280cf1e6 ("phy: Update PHY power control sequence") the
> > PHY is powered on before configuring the registers and only the MSM8996
> > PCIe PHY, which includes the POWER_DOWN_CONTROL register in its PCS
> > initialisation table, may possibly require a second update afterwards.
> > 
> > To make things worse, the POWER_DOWN_CONTROL register lies at a
> > different offset on more recent SoCs so that the second update, which
> > still used a hard-coded offset, would write to an unrelated register
> > (e.g. a revision-id register on SC8280XP).
> > 
> > As the MSM8996 PCIe PHY is now handled by a separate driver, simply drop
> > the bogus register update.
> > 
> > Fixes: e4d8b05ad5f9 ("phy: qcom-qmp: Use proper PWRDOWN offset for sm8150 USB") added support
> 
> I'm not sure about the particular fixes tag. Backporting from the split 
> driver into old qmp driver would be a complete pain.

That a separate issue. The fixes tag point at the commit introducing the
bug. And I didn't add a stable tag on purpose.

> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>

Johan