From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com (Antoine =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=E9nart?=) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:11:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/9] usb: phy: add the Berlin USB PHY driver In-Reply-To: References: <1401983326-19205-1-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <1401983326-19205-5-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140606071106.GA30156@kwain> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:09:06PM +0530, Vivek Gautam wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Antoine T?nart > wrote: > > Add the driver driving the Marvell Berlin USB PHY. This allows to > > initialize the PHY and to use it from the USB driver later. > > Just out of curiosity, going forward we would like to have phy drivers based on > generic phy framework (drivers/phy). > Any particular reason that we are still adding phy drivers in usb-phy layer ? > > Looking at it, seems like it can very well be written based on phy framework. This USB controller are ChipIdea compatible, and the ChipIdea common functions use the usb_phy framework. That's why this PHY driver is there. Antoine -- Antoine T?nart, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com