From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:04:40 +0530 Message-ID: <523BDE70.4090407@ti.com> References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> <20130827192059.GZ3005@radagast> <5225FF63.6080608@ti.com> <20130903155030.GA21525@kroah.com> <5226F5E2.5010409@ti.com> <20130917154107.GH15645@radagast> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130917154107.GH15645@radagast> 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: Greg KH Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, nsekhar@ti.com, tomasz.figa@gmail.com, s.nawrocki@samsung.com, kgene.kim@samsung.com, swarren@nvidia.com, jg1.han@samsung.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, grant.likely@linaro.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, george.cherian@ti.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, balajitk@ti.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbi@ti.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, broonie@kernel.org, Andrew Morton List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, On Tuesday 17 September 2013 09:11 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:27:06PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> 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. > > Just a gentle ping on this one... Let me know if you want me to rebase this patch series on the latest mainline HEAD. Thanks Kishon