Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code

From	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code
Date	2016-04-11 20:40 +0200
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Hello.

On 04/11/2016 09:19 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:

>>> The code you are deleting would of ignored the flags in the gpio
>>> property, i.e. active low.
>>
>>     Hm, you're right -- I forgot about that... :-/
>>
>>> The new code in the previous patch does
>>> however take the flags into account. Did you check if there are any
>>> device trees which have flags, which were never used, but are now
>>> going to be used and thus break...
>>
>>     Checked this now and found out arch/arm/boot/dts/ar91-vinco.dts.
>> Looks like it needs to be fixed indeed...
>>
> And this is where it gets tricky. You are breaking backwards
> compatibility by now respecting the flag. An old DT blob is not going
> to work.

    Do we care that much about the DT blobs that are just *wrong*?

> You potentially need to add a new property and deprecate the old one.

    I would like to avoid that...

>      Andrew

MBR, Sergei

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[PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-04-09 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-04-11 04:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-04-11 19:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-04-11 20:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-04-11 20:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-04-11 21:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-04-11 21:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2016-04-12 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2016-04-12 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2016-04-12 15:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2016-04-12 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-04-12 16:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFT 2/2] macb: kill PHY reset code Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2016-04-12 17:00 +0200

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