Re: [PATCH] net: fec: Add "phy-reset-active-low" property to DT

On Monday 08 February 2016 22:51:38 Andrew Lunn wrote:

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:46:42PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

On Monday 08 February 2016 21:21:13 Bernhard Walle wrote:

quoted

We need that for a custom hardware that needs the reverse reset
sequence.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <redacted>

Why can't this be specified in the gpios property?

Backwards compatibility. The flag has always been ignored until now,
yet various DTs have a flag value which are active low. If suddenly it
worked, various boards would break 

Ok, I see. 

	Arnd