From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] Generic PHY Framework Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:31:09 +0530 Message-ID: <519AFF95.9060002@ti.com> References: <1367229812-30574-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1367229812-30574-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Kishon Vijay Abraham I , grant.likely@linaro.org, tony@atomide.com, balbi@ti.com, arnd@arndb.de, swarren@nvidia.com, sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: rnayak@ti.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, b-cousson@ti.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, nsekhar@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, shawn.guo@linaro.org, santosh.shilimkar@ti.com, cesarb@cesarb.net, rob@landley.net, benoit.cousson@linaro.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, mchehab@redhat.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Monday 29 April 2013 03:33 PM, 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. > > Making omap-usb2 and twl4030 to use this framework is provided as a sample. > > This patch series is developed on linux-next tree. Any comments on this patch series? Thanks Kishon