On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:41:11AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > pon., 22 cze 2020 o 15:29 Russell King - ARM Linux admin > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a): > > > > [snip!] > > > > > This is likely to cause issues for some PHY drivers. Note that we have > > some PHY drivers which register a temperature sensor in the probe > > function, which means they can be accessed independently of the lifetime > > of the PHY bound to the network driver (which may only be while the > > network device is "up".) We certainly do not want hwmon failing just > > because the network device is down. > > > > That's kind of worked around for the reset stuff, because there are two > > layers to that: the mdio device layer reset support which knows nothing > > of the PHY binding state to the network driver, and the phylib reset > > support, but it is not nice. > > > > Regulators are reference counted so if the hwmon driver enables it > using mdio_device_power_on() it will stay on even after the PHY driver > calls phy_device_power_off(), right? Am I missing something? If that is true, you will need to audit the PHY drivers to add that. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
