Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ethernet switch on the MDIO bus have historically performed their own
> handling of the GPIO reset line. The resent patch to have the MDIO
> core handle the reset has broken the switch drivers, in that they
> cannot claim the GPIO. Some switch drivers need more control over the
> GPIO line than what the MDIO core provides. So restore the historical
> behaviour by only performing a reset of PHYs, not switches.

Thanks for looking into this, and fixing it!

> Fixes: bafbdd527d56 ("phylib: Add device reset GPIO support")
> Reported-by: Sean Wang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

For PHY reset (not switches!):
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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