Re: [PATCH v3 resend] USB: PHY: Re-organize Tegra USB PHY driver

From: Alan Stern
Date: Mon Oct 22 2012 - 10:21:24 EST


On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:29:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 10/19/2012 09:35 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:08:05PM +0530, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
> > >> NVIDIA produces several Tegra SoCs viz Tegra20, Tegra30 etc. In
> > >> order to support USB PHY drivers on these SoCs, existing PHY
> > >> driver is split into SoC agnostic common USB PHY driver and
> > >> Tegra20-specific USB phy driver. This will facilitate easy
> > >> addition and deletion of phy drivers for Tegra SoCs.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I was reading this "driver" more closely and I have a bunch of
> > > questions about it, but the most important of all of them is: "why
> > > isn't that a real PHY driver ?". It doesn't have a probe()
> > > function, it doesn't use struct usb_phy to represent the PHY, it
> > > has a bunch of tegra-specific APIs and we can't let those
> > > continue.
> >
> > One question here: If the PHY "driver" API changes, there will need to
> > be a bunch of ehci-tegra.c changes too. Will you take all those
>
> hmm.. indeed.
>
> > through the PHY tree? If you expect to do that, then I'd like to
>
> I can take those if Alan is ok with it :-) Alan ?

I don't mind a bit. It's kind of difficult for me to review changes to
the platform-specific parts of the these drivers, anyway. I have no
way to test them and I'm not familiar with the interfaces involved.

Alan Stern

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