[RFC PATCH 08/15] ata: ahci_platform: Manage SATA PHY

[Roger Quadros]

On 09/23/2013 03:59 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 23-09-2013 11:37, Roger Quadros wrote:
> 
>>>>     Not sure why you asked -- I'm not using this driver, neither I'm
> 
>>> Well, you have better grip of what's going on in the embedded world
>>> than me.  I'm mostly curious whether adding dependency on PHY is okay.
> 
>> There is no hard dependency on presence of PHY. The driver will continue
>> as usual if devm_phy_get() fails.
>> I hope selecting GENERIC_PHY in Kconfig is not an issue.
> 
>    Selecting in the AHCI_PLATFORM section? It seems I have overlooked it. No, I don't think it's a good idea. The generic PHY functions seem to be stubbed when GENERIC_PHY=n.
> 
OK I will remove the select then.

cheers,
-roger