linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 1/8] phy: add a driver for the Berlin SATA PHY

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:24:22 +0530
From:	Varka Bhadram <varkabhadram@...il.com>
To:	Antoine Ténart 
	<antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>,
	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com, tj@...nel.org, kishon@...com
CC:	alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, zmxu@...vell.com,
	jszhang@...vell.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/8] phy: add a driver for the Berlin SATA PHY

On 07/18/2014 06:00 PM, Antoine Ténart 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.
>
(...)

> +
> +static const struct of_device_id phy_berlin_sata_of_match[] = {
> +	{ .compatible = "marvell,berlin2q-sata-phy" },
> +	{ },
> +};
> +
> +static struct platform_driver phy_berlin_sata_driver = {
> +	.probe	= phy_berlin_sata_probe,
> +	.driver	= {
> +		.name		= "phy-berlin-sata",
> +		.owner		= THIS_MODULE,

owner filed automatically update with module_platform_driver().

see:http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/platform_device.h#L190
  

-- 
Regards,
Varka Bhadram.

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