From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:58:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Message-Id: <5226F5E2.5010409@ti.com> List-Id: References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> <20130827192059.GZ3005@radagast> <5225FF63.6080608@ti.com> <20130903155030.GA21525@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130903155030.GA21525@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 03 September 2013 09:20 PM, Greg KH wrote: > 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. Alright, thanks. -Kishon