Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-18 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
On Thursday 18 July 2013 11:54 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:33:17AM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: Wanted to group all the PHY drivers to be used by different subsystems (SATA/USB/PCIE/HDMI/VIDEO) into a single entity. There were some comments in my

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-18 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:33:17AM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >> Wanted to group all the PHY drivers to be used by different subsystems > >> (SATA/USB/PCIE/HDMI/VIDEO) into a single entity. There were some comments > >> in my > >> initial version [3] on using a bus_type instead of

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-18 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
Hi, On Wednesday 17 July 2013 10:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:02:59PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wednesday 17 July 2013 11:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-18 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
Hi, On Wednesday 17 July 2013 10:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:02:59PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 17 July 2013 11:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY + tristate

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-18 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:33:17AM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: Wanted to group all the PHY drivers to be used by different subsystems (SATA/USB/PCIE/HDMI/VIDEO) into a single entity. There were some comments in my initial version [3] on using a bus_type instead of class but then

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-18 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
On Thursday 18 July 2013 11:54 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:33:17AM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: Wanted to group all the PHY drivers to be used by different subsystems (SATA/USB/PCIE/HDMI/VIDEO) into a single entity. There were some comments in my initial version [3]

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-17 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:02:59PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 17 July 2013 11:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >> +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY > >> + tristate "PHY Subsystem" > >> + help > >> +

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-17 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
Hi, On Wednesday 17 July 2013 11:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY >> +tristate "PHY Subsystem" >> +help >> + Generic PHY support. >> + >> + This framework is designed to provide a generic

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-17 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY > + tristate "PHY Subsystem" > + help > + Generic PHY support. > + > + This framework is designed to provide a generic interface for PHY > + devices present in the kernel.

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-17 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY + tristate PHY Subsystem + help + Generic PHY support. + + This framework is designed to provide a generic interface for PHY + devices present in the kernel. This layer

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-17 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
Hi, On Wednesday 17 July 2013 11:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY +tristate PHY Subsystem +help + Generic PHY support. + + This framework is designed to provide a generic interface for

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-07-17 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:02:59PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 17 July 2013 11:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY + tristate PHY Subsystem + help +Generic PHY support.

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-27 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
On Friday 28 June 2013 08:57 AM, Jingoo Han wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:17:29 +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham Iwrote: The PHY framework 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. For

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-27 Thread Jingoo Han
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:17:29 +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham Iwrote: > The PHY framework 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. For dt-boot, the PHY drivers should > also register

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-27 Thread Jingoo Han
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:17:29 +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham Iwrote: The PHY framework 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. For dt-boot, the PHY drivers should also register

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-27 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
On Friday 28 June 2013 08:57 AM, Jingoo Han wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:17:29 +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham Iwrote: The PHY framework 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. For

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-26 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > The PHY framework 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. For dt-boot, the PHY drivers should > also

[PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-26 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
The PHY framework 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. For dt-boot, the PHY drivers should also register *PHY provider* with the framework. PHY drivers should create the PHY by

[PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-26 Thread Kishon Vijay Abraham I
The PHY framework 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. For dt-boot, the PHY drivers should also register *PHY provider* with the framework. PHY drivers should create the PHY by

Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

2013-06-26 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: The PHY framework 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. For dt-boot, the PHY drivers should also