From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58022 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756642Ab3ICPry (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:47:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:50:30 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Cc: Andrew Morton , balbi@ti.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, jg1.han@samsung.com, s.nawrocki@samsung.com, kgene.kim@samsung.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, broonie@kernel.org, tomasz.figa@gmail.com, arnd@arndb.de, grant.likely@linaro.org, tony@atomide.com, swarren@nvidia.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, balajitk@ti.com, george.cherian@ti.com, nsekhar@ti.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework Message-ID: <20130903155030.GA21525@kroah.com> References: <1377063973-22044-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> <521B0E79.6060506@ti.com> <20130827192059.GZ3005@radagast> <5225FF63.6080608@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5225FF63.6080608@ti.com> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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