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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:27:06 +0530 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <balbi@...com>, <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>, <jg1.han@...sung.com>, <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>, <kgene.kim@...sung.com>, <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, <broonie@...nel.org>, <tomasz.figa@...il.com>, <arnd@...db.de>, <grant.likely@...aro.org>, <tony@...mide.com>, <swarren@...dia.com>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <balajitk@...com>, <george.cherian@...com>, <nsekhar@...com>, <linux@....linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PHY framework On Tuesday 03 September 2013 09:20 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 08:55:23PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 12:50 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:44:49PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 21 August 2013 11:16 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >>>>> Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers >>>>> to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to >>>>> the PHY with or without using phandle. >>>>> >>>>> This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY >>>>> functionality is not embedded within the controller). >>>>> >>>>> The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread >>>>> all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to >>>>> increase code maintainability. >>>>> >>>>> Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of >>>>> other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad >>>>> design. >>>>> >>>>> If the PHY driver has to send notification on connect/disconnect, the PHY >>>>> driver should make use of the extcon framework. Using this susbsystem >>>>> to use extcon framwork will have to be analysed. >>>>> >>>>> You can find this patch series @ >>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kishon/linux-phy.git testing >>>> >>>> Looks like there are not further comments on this series. Can you take this in >>>> your misc tree? >>> >>> Do you want me to queue these for you ? There are quite a few users for >>> this framework already and I know of at least 2 others which will show >>> up for v3.13. >> >> Can you queue this patch series? There are quite a few users already for this >> framework. > > It will have to wait for 3.13 as the merge window for new features has > been closed for a week or so. Sorry, I'll queue this up after 3.12-rc1 > is out. Alright, thanks. -Kishon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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