From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:50:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130903155030.GA21525@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5225FF63.6080608@ti.com>
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.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-21 5:58 [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 2/8] usb: phy: omap-usb2: use the new " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-09-26 18:51 ` Greg KH
2013-09-27 6:47 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 3/8] usb: phy: twl4030: " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 4/8] arm: omap3: twl: add phy consumer data in twl4030_usb_data Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 5/8] ARM: dts: omap: update usb_otg_hs data Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 6/8] usb: musb: omap2430: use the new generic PHY framework Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 7/8] usb: phy: omap-usb2: remove *set_suspend* callback from omap-usb2 Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-21 5:58 ` [PATCH v11 8/8] usb: phy: twl4030-usb: remove *set_suspend* and *phy_init* ops Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-26 8:26 ` [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-27 19:20 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-08-28 10:55 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-09-03 15:37 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-09-03 15:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-09-04 8:58 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-09-17 15:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-09-20 5:46 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-09-20 6:07 ` Greg KH
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