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Message-ID: <Y9r0EWOZbiBvkxj0@google.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 15:21:53 -0800
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Wei Fang <wei.fang@....com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>,
Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@....com>,
NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] net: fec: do not double-parse
'phy-reset-active-high' property
On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 11:54:02PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 01:53:20PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Conversion to gpiod API done in commit 468ba54bd616 ("fec: convert
> > to gpio descriptor") clashed with gpiolib applying the same quirk to the
> > reset GPIO polarity (introduced in commit b02c85c9458c). This results in
> > the reset line being left active/device being left in reset state when
> > reset line is "active low".
> >
> > Remove handling of 'phy-reset-active-high' property from the driver and
> > rely on gpiolib to apply needed adjustments to avoid ending up with the
> > double inversion/flipped logic.
>
> I searched the in tree DT files from 4.7 to 6.0. None use
> phy-reset-active-high. I'm don't think it has ever had an in tree
> user.
>
> This property was marked deprecated Jul 18 2019. So i suggest we
> completely drop it.
I'd be happy kill the quirk in gpiolibi-of.c if that is what we want to
do, although DT people sometimes are pretty touchy about keeping
backward compatibility.
I believe this should not stop us from merging this patch though, as the
code is currently broken when this deprecated property is not present.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
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