Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI: armada8k: don't toggle reset twice

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 4:40 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Another look at this comment made me realize that we need comphy
> > initialization support in the kernel for PCIe reset to work correctly.
> >
> > The workaround that this patch proposes will not solve the problem for
> > v5.0, since the GPIO get_direction patch will only appear in v5.1.
>
> You could ask for it to be applied to v5.0 since a real fix depends on
> it.

If it makes a piece of hardware work that was working before and
now is not working as a result of other kernel changes I would
definately apply it because that is a clear cut regression.

I am under the impression that this is the case?

Yours,
Linus Walleij