[PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Mon Aug 26 04:14:49 EDT 2013


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



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