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

Roger Quadros rogerq at ti.com
Mon Sep 23 03:37:38 EDT 2013


Hi Tejun,

On 09/23/2013 12:51 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:24:36PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov 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.

cheers,
-roger



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