Re: [RFC next v1 0/5] stmmac: honor the GPIO flags for the PHY reset GPIO

From: Martin Blumenstingl
Date: Mon Jun 10 2019 - 11:56:01 EST


On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 3:51 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:31:17PM +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:47 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 10:45:10PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > > Patch #1 and #4 are minor cleanups which follow the boyscout rule:
> > > > > "Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it."
> > > >
> > > > > I
> > > > > am also looking for suggestions how to handle these cross-tree changes
> > > > > (patch #2 belongs to the linux-gpio tree, patches #1, 3 and #4 should
> > > > > go through the net-next tree. I will re-send patch #5 separately as
> > > > > this should go through Kevin's linux-amlogic tree).
> > > >
> > > > Patches 1 and 4 don't seem to have and dependencies. So i would
> > > > suggest splitting them out and submitting them to netdev for merging
> > > > independent of the rest.
> > >
> > > Jumping on the occasion of that series. These properties have been
> > > defined to deal with phy reset, while it seems that the PHY core can
> > > now handle that pretty easily through generic properties.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense to just move to that generic properties
> > > that already deals with the flags properly?
> > thank you for bringing this up!
> > if anyone else (just like me) doesn't know about it, there are generic
> > bindings defined here: [0]
> >
> > I just tested this on my X96 Max by defining the following properties
> > inside the PHY node:
> > reset-delay-us = <10000>;
> > reset-assert-us = <10000>;
> > reset-deassert-us = <10000>;
> > reset-gpios = <&gpio GPIOZ_15 (GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW | GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN)>;
> >
> > that means I don't need any stmmac patches which seems nice.
>
> I'm glad it works for you :)
>
> > instead I can submit a patch to mark the snps,reset-gpio properties in
> > the dt-bindings deprecated (and refer to the generic bindings instead)
> > what do you think?
>
> I already did as part of the binding reworks I did earlier today:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2019-June/658427.html
great, thank you - you have my Reviewed-by!