Re: [PATCH 2/2] phy: driver for Conexant Digicolor internal USB PHY

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

Hi,

On Tuesday 31 March 2015 09:11 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Kishon,
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:56:54PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> On Tuesday 31 March 2015 05:04 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 05:36:29 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>>>> Add a driver for the USB PHY on the Conexant CX92755 SoC, from the
>>>>> Digicolor series of SoCs. The PHY is connected to the on-chip chipidea
>>>>> usb2 host.
>>>>>
>>>>> The hardware is somewhat similar to the phy-mxs-usb.c usb_phy, but it is
>>>>> different enough to merit its own driver. Also, this driver uses the
>>>>> generic phy infrastructure.
>>>>
>>>> the register set looks very similar to MXS one indeed. How is it different
>>>> please ?
>>>
>>> Almost of the bits that are defined in the MXS USBPHY_CTRL register are not
>>> defined in the Digicolor one. Some have different meaning, and some are
>>> reserved. OTOH, the Digicolor USBPHY_CTRL register uses all bits in the 1-13
>>> range. Also, the Digicolor phy does not have anatop registers.
>>
>> I think we should try adding support for this in the same driver.
>
> The only code that can actually be shared between the driver is the two lines
> usb_phy .on_connect callback routine. The init sequence that takes most of the
> digicolor driver is totally different. Using a single driver for both PHYs
> does not make much sense, IMHO.
>
> Besides, phy-mxs-usb.c uses the deprecated usb_phy framework. So we first need
> to port this driver to the generic phy framework.

Doesn't your driver also use the usb_phy framework?

-Kishon