Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 02/19/2013 09:05:00 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: Greg, can you pitch your suggestion here ? It would be great to hear your rationale behind dropping class infrastructure, couldn't find anything through Google and since feature-removal-schedule.txt has been removed (without adding it to

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 02/19/2013 09:05:00 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: Greg, can you pitch your suggestion here ? It would be great to hear your rationale behind dropping class infrastructure, couldn't find anything through Google and since feature-removal-schedule.txt has been removed (without adding it to

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:07:09PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: > On 02/19/2013 04:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Marc Kleine-Budde
On 02/19/2013 04:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Currently drivers/phy and drivers/net/phy are

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:28:17PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > It's a fine line, but I think a phy is something that

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > Currently drivers/phy and drivers/net/phy are independent and are not > > > > related to each other.

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > Currently drivers/phy and drivers/net/phy are independent and are not > > > related to each other. There are some fundamental differences on how > > > these frameworks work.

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, kishon wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > > >> Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, kishon wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, 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

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread kishon
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, 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

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, 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. To obtain a reference to the PHY >

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, 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. To obtain a reference to the PHY without

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread kishon
Hi, On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, 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

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, kishon wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, 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

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, kishon wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:14 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Currently drivers/phy and drivers/net/phy are independent and are not related to each other. There are some fundamental differences on how these frameworks work. IIUC, the

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Currently drivers/phy and drivers/net/phy are independent and are not related to each other. There are

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: It's a fine line, but I think a phy is something that resembles a

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:28:17PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Marc Kleine-Budde
On 02/19/2013 04:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Currently drivers/phy and drivers/net/phy are independent and are

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-19 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:07:09PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: On 02/19/2013 04:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:34:40PM +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:33:54PM +, Arnd

[PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-18 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
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. To obtain a reference to the PHY without using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code (say from

[PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework

2013-02-18 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
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. To obtain a reference to the PHY without using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code (say from