Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4.1] phylib: Add device reset GPIO support | From | Richard Leitner <> | Date | Mon, 4 Dec 2017 17:20:13 +0100 |
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On 12/04/2017 01:35 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> > > 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 -- it made use of the reset GPIO for its own purposes... > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> > [geert: Propagate actual errors from fwnode_get_named_gpiod()] > [geert: Avoid destroying initial setup] > [geert: Consolidate GPIO descriptor acquiring code] > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> > ---
Successfully tested this patch on a i.MX6SOLO based board containing a LAN8710 PHY:
Tested-by: Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com>
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