Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] net: arc_emac: add phy reset is optional for device tree

From: Caesar Wang
Date: Thu Mar 17 2016 - 06:03:02 EST


Hi Sergei,

å 2016å03æ16æ 21:57, Sergei Shtylyov åé:
Hello.

On 3/14/2016 11:01 AM, Caesar Wang wrote:

This patch adds the following property for arc_emac.

1) phy-reset-gpios:
The phy-reset-gpio is an optional property for arc emac device tree boot.
Change the binding document to match the driver code.

2) phy-reset-duration:
Different boards may require different phy reset duration. Add property
phy-reset-duration for device tree probe, so that the boards that need
a longer reset duration can specify it in their device tree.

Anyway, we can add the above property for arc emac.

Signed-off-by: Caesar Wang <wxt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Could you have a look at drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb/? It seems to be the only driver which places the PHY's "reset-gpios" prop correctly, into the PHY subnode? I'm currently working on adding support of this prop into phylib...

I see the driver on now.


/* Power up the PHY if there is a GPIO reset */
phy_node = of_get_next_available_child(np, NULL);
if (phy_node) {
int gpio = of_get_named_gpio(phy_node, "reset-gpios", 0);
if (gpio_is_valid(gpio))
bp->reset_gpio = gpio_to_desc(gpio);
gpiod_set_value(bp->reset_gpio, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
}
of_node_put(phy_node);
...

Frankly, I don't like this way in device drivers.
That's seem same with the /drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c, power up the device.
Is it not really reset hardware PHY from the gpio reset pin? Just power up.

Of course, I hope to see and test it if you improve the PHY framework to support the phy reset.:-)

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Anyway, David had applied this series patches into net branch.

Although the clock and dts patches should be applied into Heiko branch, I'm glad to see David's way.

Heiko branch:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mmind/linux-rockchip.git/


I wish won't destory Heiko to merge in the future.


-Caesar




MBR, Sergei


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Thanks,
Caesar