Is W5500 reset pin well supported in the driver?

[liudr]

I started #11474 last year in order to incorporate Ethernet for more stable networking. I am now trying to make a more robust ESP32 + W5500 system by connecting W5500's reset pin to ESP32. But it seems that the driver is including the reset pin only in the latest 1.23.0 release, but not any earlier releases (checked between .20 and .23 preview, no reset in struct):

micropython/ports/esp32/network_lan.c

Line 54 in a61c446

int8_t phy_reset_pin;

I wonder if the following side discussions about using nic.active(0) is a result of implementing the reset pin:

https://github.com/orgs/micropython/discussions/15294#discussioncomment-9795263

My experience with 1.20, which doesn't support W5500 reset pin, is that my W5500 reset pin is pulled up on the W5500 module. I was able to reboot ESP32 and reconnecting to Ethernet every time ESP32 rebooted. I wonder if this stability despite not using the reset pin was due to the driver issuing a software reset command to W5500 via SPI upon initialization. Now that the new MP version .23 is implementing W5500 reset pin, If I update my MP to .23, I wonder if I must issue nic.active(0) after each ESP32 soft reset. It sounds counter-intuitive.