Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: don't depend on GPIOLIB

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:31:20PM +0100, Mason wrote:
> On 18/03/2016 20:12, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Sebastian Frias wrote:
> > 
> >> What would you think of making at803x_link_change_notify() print a
> >> message every time it should do a reset but does not has a way to do it?
> > 
> > Then this question is obsolete because the device doesn't probe.
> 
> I don't understand this statement.
> 
> What does it mean for a question to be obsolete?

If the driver doesn't probe because it cannot control the reset line,
you don't need to think about how it should behave in
at803x_link_change_notify without control of the reset line, because
this code isn't reached then.

Best regards
Uwe

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