From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:04:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20120926170459.GA30454@kroah.com> References: <1348671675-20830-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1348671675-20830-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, joe@perches.com, davem@davemloft.net, santosh.shilimkar@ti.com, grant.likely@secretlab.ca, balbi@ti.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, robherring2@gmail.com, richard.zhao@freescale.com, B29397@freescale.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, mkl@pengutronix.de, marex@denx.de, p.paneri@samsung.com, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:31:15PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > The PHY framework provides a set of API's for the PHY drivers to > create/destroy a PHY and API's for the PHY users to obtain a reference to the > PHY with or without using phandle. To obtain a reference to the PHY without > using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code (say from board file) > should have already called phy_bind with the binding information. The binding > information consists of phy's device name, phy user device name and an index. > The index is used when the same phy user binds to mulitple phys. > > PHY drivers should create the PHY by passing phy_descriptor that has > describes the PHY (label, type etc..) and ops like init, exit, suspend, resume, > poweron, shutdown. Do you have an example driver that uses this new framework? How does it look in sysfs? You need to add Documentation/ABI/ entries for the sysfs files you created as well. greg k-h