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

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 04:23:19PM +0530, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Venu Byravarasu
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 4:04 PM
> > To: 'balbi@xxxxxx'
> > Cc: stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> > usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 resend] USB: PHY: Re-organize Tegra USB PHY driver
> > 
> > >
> > > what is this SOC dependent PHY driver ?
> > 
> > SOC dependent PHY driver actually deals with the PHY interface
> > programming.
> > e.g. please see code present in tegra2_usb_driver.c.
> > 
> > > What sort of dependencies are
> > > there ? Those differences should be handled with runtime checks.
> > 
> > As PHY related bugs got fixed across different set of SOCs apart from
> > adding few features, wanted to separate this out from common PHY
> > functionality. This will help us in adding support for different SOCs with
> > minimum set of changes.
> 
> Felipe,
> 
> Please let me know if you have any more questions on this patch.
> If not, can you please merge this?

Like I said before, those differences should be handled by runtime
checks, you shouldn't need separate files for that. What you need to do
is implement a single PHY driver which can handle all tegras known to
date, later you can add support for new tegras by patching a few things
here and there.

-- 
balbi

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