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

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:35:56 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>
CC:	<stern@...land.harvard.edu>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<balbi@...com>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 resend] USB: PHY: Re-organize Tegra USB PHY driver

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@...dia.com>

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.

Please, take a look at drivers/usb/phy/omap_usb2.c (misnamed actually,
should be phy-omap-usb2.c so we have a common prefix) to see how your
PHY driver should look like and which sort of functionality if should
expose to the rest of the kernel.

Please comment on the above.

cheers

-- 
balbi

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