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From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: <balbi@ti.com>, Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@nvidia.com>,
	<stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 resend] USB: PHY: Re-organize Tegra USB PHY driver
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:56:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121022075611.GC14033@arwen.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50817FEF.70107@wwwdotorg.org>

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Hi,

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:29:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 09:35 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:08:05PM +0530, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
> >> NVIDIA produces several Tegra SoCs viz Tegra20, Tegra30 etc. In
> >> order to support USB PHY drivers on these SoCs, existing PHY
> >> driver is split into SoC agnostic common USB PHY driver and
> >> Tegra20-specific USB phy driver. This will facilitate easy
> >> addition and deletion of phy drivers for Tegra SoCs.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > I was reading this "driver" more closely and I have a bunch of
> > questions about it, but the most important of all of them is: "why
> > isn't that a real PHY driver ?". It doesn't have a probe()
> > function, it doesn't use struct usb_phy to represent the PHY, it
> > has a bunch of tegra-specific APIs and we can't let those
> > continue.
> 
> One question here: If the PHY "driver" API changes, there will need to
> be a bunch of ehci-tegra.c changes too. Will you take all those

hmm.. indeed.

> through the PHY tree? If you expect to do that, then I'd like to

I can take those if Alan is ok with it :-) Alan ?

> request you also take:
> 
> usb: host: tegra remove include of <mach/iomap.h>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg72429.html
> 
> ... since that should get merged before any large changes to
> ehci-tegra.c; it's the EHCI equivalent of the PHY patch you already
> merged.
> 
> (The same request applies to put that into a branch I can pull into
> the Tegra tree as a basis for cleanup in the Tegra tree)

sure, that should be simple enough to do ;-)

-- 
balbi

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19 10:38 [PATCH v3 resend] USB: PHY: Re-organize Tegra USB PHY driver Venu Byravarasu
2012-10-19 14:46 ` Alan Stern
2012-10-19 15:35 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-10-19 16:29   ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-22  7:56     ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2012-10-22 14:21       ` Alan Stern
2012-10-22  8:30   ` Venu Byravarasu
2012-10-22 10:02     ` Felipe Balbi
2012-10-22 10:17       ` Venu Byravarasu
2012-10-22 10:16         ` Felipe Balbi
2012-10-22 10:33           ` Venu Byravarasu
2012-10-23 10:53           ` Venu Byravarasu
2012-10-23 10:53             ` Felipe Balbi
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2012-10-19 10:33 Venu Byravarasu
2012-10-19 10:32 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-10-19 10:43   ` Venu Byravarasu

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