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From: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/15] ata: ahci_platform: Manage SATA PHY
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:37:38 +0300
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Hi Tejun,

On 09/23/2013 12:51 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:24:36PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>>    Not sure why you asked -- I'm not using this driver, neither I'm
> 
> Well, you have better grip of what's going on in the embedded world
> than me.  I'm mostly curious whether adding dependency on PHY is okay.
> 

There is no hard dependency on presence of PHY. The driver will continue
as usual if devm_phy_get() fails.
I hope selecting GENERIC_PHY in Kconfig is not an issue.

cheers,
-roger