Re: [PATCH 2/5] phy: iproc-mdio: Initial iProc MDC/MDIO support

Ray Jui
2015-05-21T22:02:49Z

On 5/21/2015 2:51 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 21/05/15 14:35, Ray Jui wrote:
>> On 5/21/2015 6:12 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 20 May 2015 06:53 AM, Ray Jui wrote:
>>>> This adds the support for the iProc MDC/MDIO interface. Multiple iProc
>>>> SoCs contain the MDC/MDIO interface that can be used for the host to
>>>> communicate with various Serdes/PHYs including Ethernet, PCIe, USB, etc.
>>>
>>> the term phy used in this driver is misleading. It's not a PHY actually.
>>> This sounds more like a bus driver to me and should be present in
>>> drivers/bus?
>>
>> Sure I can move it to drivers/bus/* if that's more appropriate.
>> Typically MDIO is used with Ethernet PHYs and most people register it to
>> the mii bus under drivers/net/ethernet. Our case is rare, where the same
>> MDIO interface is shared by the Ethernet PHY and other types of PHYs.
>> But yeah that does not change the fact that this is more of a bus type
>> of driver than a PHY driver.
>>
>> I checked the maintainers' list and found apparently there's no
>> maintainer for drivers/bus/*? In this case, who is supposed to ack and
>> send a pull request for the patch?
>
> In the case of drivers/bus/brcmstb_gisb.c I sent change via an arm-soc
> pull request relating to driver/SoC code changes, and Arnd merged these
> changes the same way he did merge changes for code in arch/arm/
>

Thanks for the tip, Florian!

Ray