[net-next] phylib: Add device reset GPIO support causes DSA MT7530 acquires reset-gpios fails

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 02:55:03PM +0800, Sean Wang wrote:
> Hi Sergei,
> 
> Recently I found the patch commit bafbdd527d56 (phylib: Add device reset
> GPIO support) would have the impact on MT7530 driver. Which causes the
> DSA MT7530 device (it's the child node under mdio bus) gets the
> reset-gpios fails because the same GPIO seems already be held in the
> earlier mdiobus_register_device call patched through the commit.
> 
> do you have any idea how the commits also considers DSA case ?
> 
> I guessed the DSA lan9303, mv88e8 switch should have the same issue
> since they have the same GPIO name as mdiobus_register_device required.

Hi Sean

Ah, not good :-(

I _think_ for the mv88e6xxx, we can remove the gpio reset code from
the driver, and let the mdio core do it. I need to test to be sure.

Would that work for you?

      Andrew