netdev - Re: [PATCH 13/15] net: phy: mdio: add support for PHY supply regulator

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Message-ID: <20200622132504.GH1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:25:04 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
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        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
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        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] net: phy: mdio: add support for PHY supply
 regulator

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:37:42AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> Currently many MAC drivers control the regulator supplying the PHY but
> this is conceptually wrong. The regulator should be defined as a property
> of the PHY node on the MDIO bus and controlled by the MDIO sub-system.
> 
> Add support for an optional PHY regulator which will be enabled before
> optional deasserting of the reset signal.

I wonder if this is the right place for this - MDIO devices do not have
to be PHYs - they can be switches, and using "phy-supply" for a switch
doesn't seem logical.

However, I can see the utility of having having a supply provided for
all mdio devices, so it seems to me to be a naming issue.  Andrew?

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