netdev - Re: [PATCH RFT 1/2] phylib: add device reset GPIO support

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Message-ID: <5732327A.6080203@cogentembedded.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 22:11:54 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, grant.likely@...aro.org,
	robh+dt@...nel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, frowand.list@...il.com, pawel.moll@....com,
	mark.rutland@....com, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
	galak@...eaurora.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 1/2] phylib: add device reset GPIO support

Hello.

On 05/10/2016 09:32 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:

>> 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 as it made use of the reset GPIO for its own purposes...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
>
> This looks good to me:
>
> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

    Thank you! I'll send v3 without [RFT] then.

> Can you follow up with changes in phy_{suspend,resume}

    I'm not sure what changes you mean -- powering down the PHYs?

> if that is also
> an use case that you have?

    No, I'm not into power management.

MBR, Sergei