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

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Apr 06 2017 - 08:05:49 EST


> > 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