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Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic

From Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic
Date 2017-04-06 18:50 +0200
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On 06/04/17 15:05, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> Do you really need more than one GPIO? A single gpio would make all
>>> this code a lot simpler.
>>>
>>
>> Yes we need. Some of our boards have separate GPIO RESET lines for
>> different PHYs on the same MDIO bus.
> 
> If you have a one-to-one mapping of GPIO and PHY, you should really be
> modelling that differently. You want to be able to reset just a single
> PHY, i.e. make it part of the PHY driver, or maybe the PHY core.
> 
>      Andrew
> 


I'm not sure how it would be modelled. We have never had the need to reset
just one PHY on the MDIO bus.
Some boards have a single RESET line to multiple PHYs whereas others have individual
RESET lines. In all cases we just want to do the RESET once per boot.

cheers,
-roger

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[PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> - 2017-04-05 10:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-04-05 17:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> - 2017-04-06 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-04-06 14:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> - 2017-04-06 18:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-04-08 16:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-04-08 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-04-08 17:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] net: davinci_mdio: add GPIO reset logic Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> - 2017-04-10 10:00 +0200

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