[PATCH v12 0/7] PHY framework

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Sat Sep 28 05:42:12 EDT 2013


On Saturday 28 September 2013 06:07 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:53:24AM +0530, 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
>>
>> I'll create a new branch *next* once this patch series is finalized. All the
>> PHY driver development that depends on PHY framework can be based on this
>> branch.
>>
>> Did USB enumeration testing in panda and beagle after applying [1] (needed for
>> non-dt)
> 
> All now applied to my usb-next branch.  Thanks for redoing this many
> times and sticking with it.

Thanks :-)

-Kishon



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