netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic

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Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2017 14:05:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, tony@...mide.com, nsekhar@...com,
        jsarha@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic

> > Do you really need more than one GPIO? A single gpio would make all
> > this code a lot simpler.
> > 
> 
> Yes we need. Some of our boards have separate GPIO RESET lines for
> different PHYs on the same MDIO bus.

If you have a one-to-one mapping of GPIO and PHY, you should really be
modelling that differently. You want to be able to reset just a single
PHY, i.e. make it part of the PHY driver, or maybe the PHY core.

     Andrew