From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:16:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2174304.5JlzJ583hP@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201307242032.03597.arnd@arndb.de>
Hi Arnd,
On Wednesday 24 July 2013 20:32:03 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2013, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 of July 2013 17:14:20 Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > > > Where would you want to have those phy_address arrays stored? There
> > > > are no board files when booting with DT. Not even saying that you
> > > > don't need to use any hacky schemes like this when you have DT that
> > > > nicely specifies relations between devices.
> > >
> > > If everybody agrees DT has a nice scheme for specifying relations
> > > between devices, why not use that same scheme in the PHY core?
> >
> > It is already used, for cases when consumer device has a DT node attached.
> > In non-DT case this kind lookup translates loosely to something that is
> > being done in regulator framework - you can't bind devices by pointers,
> > because you don't have those pointers, so you need to use device names.
>
> Sorry for jumping in to the middle of the discussion, but why does a *new*
> framework even bother defining an interface for board files?
>
> Can't we just drop any interfaces for platform data passing in the phy
> framework and put the burden of adding those to anyone who actually needs
> them? All the platforms we are concerned with here (exynos and omap, plus
> new platforms) can be booted using DT anyway.
What about non-DT architectures such as MIPS (still widely used in consumer
networking equipments from what I've heard) ?
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 6:58 [PATCH 00/15] PHY framework Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 01/15] drivers: phy: add generic " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 7:20 ` Greg KH
2013-07-18 9:11 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 15:49 ` Greg KH
2013-07-19 5:49 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-19 5:43 ` Greg KH
2013-07-19 5:56 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-19 6:29 ` Greg KH
2013-07-19 6:48 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-19 15:54 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-20 3:27 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-19 23:50 ` Greg KH
2013-07-20 3:31 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-20 22:00 ` Greg KH
2013-07-21 2:32 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-21 2:59 ` Greg KH
2013-07-21 10:22 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-07-21 15:48 ` Greg KH
2013-07-21 17:14 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2013-07-21 19:22 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-22 7:37 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-22 14:44 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-23 5:59 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-23 7:29 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 7:55 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 14:37 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-23 14:50 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 15:30 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-23 16:18 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 16:40 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-23 16:35 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 16:50 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 17:37 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 17:44 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-23 18:01 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 19:31 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-23 19:44 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 20:07 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 20:50 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 21:05 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 21:23 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 23:48 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-23 17:48 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 18:04 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 20:46 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 19:36 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-23 20:20 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 20:53 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-23 21:02 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-23 21:14 ` Alan Stern
2013-07-23 21:31 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-24 18:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <51F0B373.5050907@ti.com>
2013-07-25 7:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-07-25 9:29 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2013-07-25 9:29 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-25 10:16 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2013-07-25 11:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-07-25 11:10 ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-07-25 12:09 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-23 17:34 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-22 15:04 ` Greg KH
2013-07-23 5:46 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-21 10:31 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-21 11:19 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-21 11:12 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-21 15:46 ` Greg KH
2013-07-30 7:11 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-07-31 5:56 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-31 6:15 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-08-13 10:56 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-13 11:37 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-08-13 12:17 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-13 22:19 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2013-08-13 23:04 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-08-14 15:17 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-19 5:40 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-08-20 12:26 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 02/15] usb: phy: omap-usb2: use the new " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 7:21 ` Greg KH
2013-07-18 9:12 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 03/15] usb: phy: twl4030: " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 04/15] ARM: OMAP: USB: Add phy binding information Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 7:02 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 05/15] ARM: dts: omap: update usb_otg_hs data Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 7:05 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 06/15] usb: musb: omap2430: use the new generic PHY framework Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 07/15] usb: phy: omap-usb2: remove *set_suspend* callback from omap-usb2 Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 08/15] usb: phy: twl4030-usb: remove *set_suspend* and *phy_init* ops Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 09/15] phy: Add driver for Exynos MIPI CSIS/DSIM DPHYs Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 10/15] video: exynos_mipi_dsim: Use the generic PHY driver Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 11/15] exynos4-is: Use the generic MIPI CSIS " Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 12/15] ARM: Samsung: Remove the MIPI PHY setup code Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 13/15] phy: Add driver for Exynos DP PHY Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 14/15] video: exynos_dp: remove non-DT support for Exynos Display Port Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2013-07-18 6:58 ` [PATCH 15/15] video: exynos_dp: Use the generic PHY driver Kishon Vijay Abraham I
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