[PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework

[Felipe Balbi]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:27:06PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2013 09:20 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Alright, thanks.

Just a gentle ping on this one...

cheers

-- 
balbi
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