Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>]

On Tuesday 03 September 2013 09:20 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.

Alright, thanks.

-Kishon