netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: systemport: fix UniMAC reset logic

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:12:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: systemport: fix UniMAC reset logic

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:01:40 -0700

> The UniMAC CMD_SW_RESET bit is not a self-clearing bit, so we need to
> assert it, wait a bit and clear it manually. As a result, umac_reset()
> is updated not to return any value.
> 
> By setting CMD_SW_RESET and only that bit, we were also clearing the
> other 31 bits, overriding the hardware reset defaults which are
> correctly set on purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

I agree with Sergei, this is really suspicious that the existing code
never wrote the sw reset bit into the register at all, it just writes
a zero.

And you don't mention this at all in this commit message.

If I were to guess, I would fathom that the sequence was partially
copied from the other broadcom driver, the genet one.  There it
issues CMD_SW_RESET by first clearing the entire regiser to zero,
then writing CMD_SW_RESET, and then polling for that bit to clear.

I'm assuming that is being done for a good reason, and I'd like
you to make sure that same reason does not apply here.

Thanks.
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