From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 0/7] PHY framework Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:12:12 +0530 Message-ID: <5246A474.90500@ti.com> References: <1380263012-9687-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <20130928003742.GA3659@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130928003742.GA3659@kroah.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: Greg KH Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, nsekhar@ti.com, peter.ujfalusi@ti.com, s.nawrocki@samsung.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, sameo@linux.intel.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, davidb@codeaurora.org, cesarb@cesarb.net, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, george.cherian@ti.com, rob@landley.net, pawel.moll@arm.com, swarren@wwwdotorg.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, rogerq@ti.com, balajitk@ti.com, jkosina@suse.cz, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, balbi@ti.com, t-kristo@ti.com, bcousson@baylibre.com, joe@perches.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, m.chehab@samsung.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 28 September 2013 06:07 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:53:24AM +0530, 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 >> >> I'll create a new branch *next* once this patch series is finalized. All the >> PHY driver development that depends on PHY framework can be based on this >> branch. >> >> Did USB enumeration testing in panda and beagle after applying [1] (needed for >> non-dt) > > All now applied to my usb-next branch. Thanks for redoing this many > times and sticking with it. Thanks :-) -Kishon