From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:26:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Message-Id: <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> List-Id: References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hi Greg, On Wednesday 21 August 2013 11:16 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers > to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to > the PHY with or without using phandle. > > This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY > functionality is not embedded within the controller). > > The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread > all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to > increase code maintainability. > > Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of > other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad > design. > > If the PHY driver has to send notification on connect/disconnect, the PHY > driver should make use of the extcon framework. Using this susbsystem > to use extcon framwork will have to be analysed. > > You can find this patch series @ > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kishon/linux-phy.git testing Looks like there are not further comments on this series. Can you take this in your misc tree? Thanks Kishon From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:44:49 +0530 Message-ID: <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, nsekhar@ti.com, tomasz.figa@gmail.com, s.nawrocki@samsung.com, kgene.kim@samsung.com, swarren@nvidia.com, jg1.han@samsung.com, Kishon Vijay Abraham I , stern@rowland.harvard.edu, grant.likely@linaro.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, george.cherian@ti.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, balajitk@ti.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbi@ti.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, broonie@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, On Wednesday 21 August 2013 11:16 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers > to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to > the PHY with or without using phandle. > > This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY > functionality is not embedded within the controller). > > The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread > all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to > increase code maintainability. > > Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of > other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad > design. > > If the PHY driver has to send notification on connect/disconnect, the PHY > driver should make use of the extcon framework. Using this susbsystem > to use extcon framwork will have to be analysed. > > You can find this patch series @ > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kishon/linux-phy.git testing Looks like there are not further comments on this series. Can you take this in your misc tree? Thanks Kishon From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kishon@ti.com (Kishon Vijay Abraham I) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:44:49 +0530 Subject: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework In-Reply-To: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Message-ID: <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Greg, On Wednesday 21 August 2013 11:16 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers > to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to > the PHY with or without using phandle. > > This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY > functionality is not embedded within the controller). > > The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread > all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to > increase code maintainability. > > Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of > other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad > design. > > If the PHY driver has to send notification on connect/disconnect, the PHY > driver should make use of the extcon framework. Using this susbsystem > to use extcon framwork will have to be analysed. > > You can find this patch series @ > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kishon/linux-phy.git testing Looks like there are not further comments on this series. Can you take this in your misc tree? Thanks Kishon From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.40]:54692 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755496Ab3HZIPv (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:15:51 -0400 Message-ID: <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:44:49 +0530 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: Kishon Vijay Abraham I , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Greg, On Wednesday 21 August 2013 11:16 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers > to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to > the PHY with or without using phandle. > > This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY > functionality is not embedded within the controller). > > The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread > all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to > increase code maintainability. > > Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of > other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad > design. > > If the PHY driver has to send notification on connect/disconnect, the PHY > driver should make use of the extcon framework. Using this susbsystem > to use extcon framwork will have to be analysed. > > You can find this patch series @ > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kishon/linux-phy.git testing Looks like there are not further comments on this series. Can you take this in your misc tree? Thanks Kishon