On 18/03/2016 21:11, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:31:20PM +0100, Mason wrote: > >> On 18/03/2016 20:12, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:56:21PM +0100, Sebastian Frias wrote: >>> >>>> What would you think of making at803x_link_change_notify() print a >>>> message every time it should do a reset but does not has a way to do it? >>> >>> Then this question is obsolete because the device doesn't probe. >> >> I don't understand this statement. >> >> What does it mean for a question to be obsolete? > > If the driver doesn't probe because it cannot control the reset line, > you don't need to think about how it should behave in > at803x_link_change_notify without control of the reset line, because > this code isn't reached then.
If I understand correctly, it is possible to soft-reset the PHY by writing to a specific register. The GPIO pin is useful only to force a hardware-reset when the PHY is wedged by some random event. (Or am I completely off the mark?) Regards.
