[PATCH v2 1/3] phy: rockchip-dp: should be a child device of the GRF

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Wed Apr 6 13:38:37 PDT 2016


Hi Kishon,

Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2016, 22:29:01 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
> The displayport-phy is fully enclosed in the general register files (GRF).
> Therefore as seen from the device-tree it shouldn't be a separate
> platform- device but instead a sub-device of the GRF - using the
> simply-mfd mechanism.
> 
> The driver entered the kernel in the current merge-window, so we can still
> adapt the binding without needing a fallback, as the binding hasn't been
> released with a full kernel yet.
> 
> While the edp phy is fully part of the GRF, it doesn't have any separate
> register set there, so doesn't get any register-area assigned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>

could you please look at taking these patches into the 4.6-rc kernel as fixes 
please. I'd really like to not having to keep the old interface around and 
currently we still can just convert without keeping backward compatibility.


Thanks
Heiko



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