From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: balbi@ti.com (Felipe Balbi) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:20:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework In-Reply-To: <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> Message-ID: <20130827192059.GZ3005@radagast> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:44:49PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > 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? Do you want me to queue these for you ? There are quite a few users for this framework already and I know of at least 2 others which will show up for v3.13. Let me know. cheers -- balbi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: