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From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] phy: phy-core: allow specifying supply at port
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:41:32 +0530
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Hi,

On Saturday 21 March 2015 02:55 AM, Arun Ramamurthy wrote:
> Multi-port phy's may have per-port power supplies. Let's change phy core
> to first attempt to look up the supply at the port level, and then, if
> not found, check parent device.

Why not just have every port provide the power supply if it needs?
I don't think checking for parent device should be present in the phy-core at
all.

Thanks
Kishon