Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: dts: imx6sx-sdb: Fix enet phy regulator

[Shawn Guo]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 03:28:01PM +0000, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> Bindings for "fixed-regulator" only explicitly support "gpio" property,
> not "gpios". Fix by correcting the property name.
> 
> The enet PHYs on imx6sx-sdb needs to be explicitly reset after a power
> cycle, this can be handled by the phy-reset-gpios property. Sadly this
> is not handled on suspend: the fec driver turns phy-supply off but
> doesn't assert phy-reset-gpios again on resume.
> 
> Since additional phy-level work is required to support powering off the
> phy in suspend fix the problem by just marking the regulator as
> "boot-on" "always-on" so that it's never turned off. This behavior is
> equivalent to older releases.
> 
> Keep the phy-reset-gpios property on fec anyway because it is a correct
> description of board design.
> 
> This issue was exposed by commit efdfeb079cc3 ("regulator: fixed:
> Convert to use GPIO descriptor only") which causes the "gpios" property
> to also be parsed. Before that commit the "gpios" property had no
> effect, PHY reset was only handled in the the bootloader.
> 
> This fixes linux-next boot failures previously reported here:
>  https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/982437/#1177900
>  https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/994091/#1178304
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.