[PATCH 1/3] phy: phy-can-transceiver: default silent GPIO to high during probe

From: haibo . chen

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 00:32:51 EST


From: Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@xxxxxxx>

The silent pin of the CAN transceiver is active high, asserting it puts
the transceiver into silent (listen-only) mode where the transmitter is
disabled.

At probe time, and before the PHY is powered on, the transceiver should
default to silent mode. This is the correct and lower-power state: the
transceiver should not actively drive the CAN bus until the PHY is
explicitly powered on. Requesting the silent GPIO as GPIOD_OUT_LOW leaves
the transceiver in normal mode by default, which is both incorrect and
wastes power.

Request the silent GPIO as GPIOD_OUT_HIGH so the transceiver starts in
silent mode, and let the power_on/power_off callbacks manage the mode
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c b/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c
index 75dc49e75ca0e0e90a1b1b140dcaf8033ec02c50..9aa30662105f063fb6d0e60fd04a95c8d635a515 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int can_transceiver_phy_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

if (drvdata->flags & CAN_TRANSCEIVER_SILENT_PRESENT) {
silent_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(dev, "silent", i,
- GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
+ GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
if (IS_ERR(silent_gpio))
return PTR_ERR(silent_gpio);
can_transceiver_phy->silent_gpio = silent_gpio;

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