[PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Wed Aug 28 06:43:58 EDT 2013


Hi,

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.

yeah sure. That would be better I think.

Thanks
Kishon



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