From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:26:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Message-Id: <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> List-Id: References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hi Greg, 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? Thanks Kishon