From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:13:58 +0530 Message-ID: <521DD46E.9090202@ti.com> References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> <20130827192059.GZ3005@radagast> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130827192059.GZ3005@radagast> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: balbi@ti.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, jg1.han@samsung.com, s.nawrocki@samsung.com, kgene.kim@samsung.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, broonie@kernel.org, tomasz.figa@gmail.com, arnd@arndb.de, grant.likely@linaro.org, tony@atomide.com, swarren@nvidia.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, balajitk@ti.com, george.cherian@ti.com, nsekhar@ti.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi, 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. yeah sure. That would be better I think. Thanks Kishon