Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: fsl: add phy reset after clk enable option

[Richard Leitner]

Hi Andy,
thanks for the clarifications!

On 07/07/2017 01:08 PM, Andy Duan wrote:
> > 3. Who should then trigger the "hard reset" of the PHY? phy_init_hw? The FEC?
> >
> > The point is that the LAN8710 is currently not always working correctly,
> > therefore this small change was proposed. Should we really change all
> > PHY/FECs only because of this?
> > Furthermore one problem still remains: The enet_refclk is controlled by the
> > FEC. How does the PHY recognize when it was disabled/enabled?
> Your patch is workaround for the issue. As you pointed out these is a common issue.
> So we hope to get a better solution to handle these in common code.

Ok. I'm fine with moving the phy-reset-gpios binding into the PHY. But 
one question still remains: Who should then trigger the "hard reset" of 
the PHY?

The PHY itself doesn't "know" when the refclk is turned off/on. So the 
FEC still must call some function of the PHY after the clock was enabled 
again. So the phy-reset-after-clk-enable property will remain in the fec 
node? Or am I missing something?