From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kishon@ti.com (Kishon Vijay Abraham I) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 04:09:23 +0530 Subject: [PATCH v1 1/3] phy: phy-core: allow specifying supply at port level In-Reply-To: References: <1426886727-537-1-git-send-email-arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> <1426886727-537-2-git-send-email-arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> <55133294.4040705@ti.com> Message-ID: <5513391B.2060505@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Thursday 26 March 2015 03:47 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Saturday 21 March 2015 02:55 AM, Arun Ramamurthy wrote: >>> Multi-port phy's may have per-port power supplies. Let's change phy core >>> to first attempt to look up the supply at the port level, and then, if >>> not found, check parent device. >> >> Why not just have every port provide the power supply if it needs? >> I don't think checking for parent device should be present in the phy-core at >> all. > > We need to do that if we want to keep compatibility with the current > DTSes: before this patch the supply would be always looked up on > device and not port level. ah okay. so just using regulator_get_optional(&phy->dev, "phy"); should be sufficient right? Why do we need regulator_get_optional(phy->dev.parent, "phy");? Thanks Kishon