Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] phy: add a driver for the Berlin SATA PHY

[Varka Bhadram]

On 06/24/2014 05:45 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Varka Bhadram wrote:
> > On 06/24/2014 05:30 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 June 2014 03:56 PM, Antoine TÃnart wrote:
> > > > The Berlin SoC has a two SATA ports. Add a PHY driver to handle them.
> > > >
> > > > The mode selection can let us think this PHY can be configured to fit
> > > > other purposes. But there are reasons to think the SATA mode will be
> > > > the only one usable: the PHY registers are only accessible indirectly
> > > > through two registers in the SATA range, the PHY seems to be integrated
> > > > and no information tells us the contrary. For these reasons, make the
> > > > driver a SATA PHY driver.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Antoine TÃnart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >   drivers/phy/Kconfig           |   7 ++
> > > >   drivers/phy/Makefile          |   1 +
> > > >   drivers/phy/phy-berlin-sata.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >   3 files changed, 240 insertions(+)
> > > >   create mode 100644 drivers/phy/phy-berlin-sata.c

[...]

> > > > +static struct platform_driver phy_berlin_sata_driver = {
> > > > +	.probe	= phy_berlin_sata_probe,
> > > > +	.driver	= {
> > > > +		.name		= "phy-berlin-sata",
> > > > +		.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
> > > > +		.of_match_table	= phy_berlin_sata_of_match,
> > use of_match_ptr for of_match_table
> What use is this?
>
> [...]
of_match_table is NULL for Non-DT based. Better to use the of_match_ptr().
If driver is DT based 'of_match_table	= phy_berlin_sata_of_match'
else 'of_match_table	= NULL'

This is take care by of_match_ptr() macro.

Thanks,
Varka Bhadram


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