Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] phy: use syscon framework APIs to set ctrl mod reg

Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-15T10:56:34Z

On Tuesday 15 December 2015 14:45:59 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> This series is basically to deprecate using phy-omap-control and use
> syscon APIs to program the control module registers.
>
> Changes from v2:
> No changes.
>
> Changes from v1:
> *) cleanup ti_pipe3_probe in multiple steps
> *) other minor cleanups
>
> Changes from [1] in PHY patches include
> *) cleanup ti_pipe3_probe
> *) have mask, power_on and power_off values in usb_phy_data for
> omap-usb2 phy
>
> The patches have been pushed to
> git://git.ti.com/linux-phy/linux-phy.git syscon
>
> [1] -> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/23/189
>
> All the testing was done both before applying the dt patches and after
> applying the dt patches (dt patches will be posted shortly).
>

Can you explain here what the conversion is good for? Why do you
prefer the syscon mapping over a high-level driver in this case?

Arnd