Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework

[Greg KH <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 08:55:23PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 12:50 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Can you queue this patch series? There are quite a few users already for this
> framework.

It will have to wait for 3.13 as the merge window for new features has
been closed for a week or so.  Sorry, I'll queue this up after 3.12-rc1
is out.

greg k-h
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