netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: don't depend on GPIOLIB

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Message-ID: <20160318201153.GR4292@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:11:53 +0100
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Mason <slash.tmp@...e.fr>
Cc:	Sebastian Frias <sf84@...oste.net>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Mans Rullgard <mans@...sr.com>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: don't depend on GPIOLIB

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:31:20PM +0100, Mason wrote:
> On 18/03/2016 20:12, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Sebastian Frias wrote:
> > 
> >> What would you think of making at803x_link_change_notify() print a
> >> message every time it should do a reset but does not has a way to do it?
> > 
> > Then this question is obsolete because the device doesn't probe.
> 
> I don't understand this statement.
> 
> What does it mean for a question to be obsolete?

If the driver doesn't probe because it cannot control the reset line,
you don't need to think about how it should behave in
at803x_link_change_notify without control of the reset line, because
this code isn't reached then.

Best regards
Uwe

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