Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:02:43AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> On 03/08/2013 12:08 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >>> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:37:17PM -0700, Stephen Warren > >>> wrote: > >>>> On 03/07/2013 08:45 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >>>>> this will make sure that we have sensible names for all > >>>>> phy drivers. Current situation was already quite bad with > >>>>> too generic names being used. > >>>> > >>>> Is phy-$name specific enough? There are other types of PHY > >>>> such as Ethernet, etc. What about phy-usb-$name? > >>> > >>> we will be creating a generic (kernel-wide) phy layer, so I > >>> guess that matters very little. Specially since we don't want > >>> to be differentiating PHYs by their subsystem and rather by the > >>> IP name (which means phy-tegra, phy-samsung, phy-omap, are all > >>> 'wrong', but there were no better names). > >>> > >>>> Venu, please comment on what conflicts, if any, this will > >>>> cause with the patches you'll be sending to clean up the > >>>> Tegra USB/PHY drivers. Thanks. > >>> > >>> BTW, let's stop with the whole dependency between PHY driver > >>> cleanup and arch/arm/mach-tegra/, too many patches have gone > >>> upstream bypassing my tree. What we should be doing is figuring > >>> out how to remove arch/ dependencies so that patches can go > >>> upstream and not cause conflicts. > >> > >> Unfortunately, there's no way to actually avoid the dependencies > >> themselves. The DT bindings and EHCI/PHY controller split are > >> wrong, and need work on both the DT and drivers to fix. > > > > but those changes don't need to come together, right ? I mean, for > > the DT part you could add the bindings to driver A without removing > > from driver B and span the changes accross 2 merge windows. > > There is only a single driver. It's being reworked to support the new > binding.
alright, so what's the problem of adding new binding without removing old one for v3.10 and remove old on v3.11 ? It gives a 3 month grace period for all boards to be converted, at least. -- balbi
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