Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] usb: phy: add the Berlin USB PHY driver

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Mon Jun 30 2014 - 14:34:45 EST


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:52:11PM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> Felipe,
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:04:33PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:05:57PM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> > > Hi Felipe,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:56:22AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:35:14PM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> > > > > Add the driver driving the Marvell Berlin USB PHY. This allows to
> > > > > initialize the PHY and to use it from the USB driver later.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Antoine Ténart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > since this is a brand new driver, it should go to drivers/phy instead.
> > >
> > > This PHY is used by a ChipIdea USB driver, which uses the provided
> > > common function for ChipIdea. These functions use the usb_phy framework.
> > > That's why this PHY driver is there.
> >
> > right, but you can add support for the new PHY layer which would help
> > other users convert their PHY drivers to the new PHY framework.
>
> Adding the support for the new PHY layer in the common CI code is not
> complicated, but these functions also use some parts from usb hcd or usb
> otg which are only usb_phy compatible.
>
> Shouldn't these parts add the new PHY support first, to avoid ending up
> with a fairly big series, quite long to do and complicated to review?

sure, patches are welcome. :-)

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balbi

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