Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Documentation: devicetree: update bindings for tps23861

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 11:31:15 EST


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:02 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 04:37:36PM +0200, Andreas Böhler wrote:
> > > The tps23861 driver does not initialize the chip and relies on it being
> > > in auto-mode by default. On some devices, these controllers default to
> > > OFF-Mode and hence cannot be used at all.
> > >
> > > This brings minimal support for initializing the controller in a user-
> > > defined mode.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > nack for the series, sorry. The suggested properties are not hardware
> > monitoring but phy properties. There should be a separate phy driver
> > to manage those.
> >
> > Also, as mentioned, the hwmon 'enable' attribute is abused to control
> > port functionality and should be removed.
>
> Hi Guenter,
> Are you referring to an ethernet PHY driver or the generic PHY framework?
>

Could be both, though ethernet phy sounds about right for me.
I don't know where/how similar chips are handled. hwmon is most definitey
the wrong place.

Guenter