linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] phy: iproc-mdio: Initial iProc MDC/MDIO support

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Message-ID: <555E5360.6090202@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 May 2015 14:51:28 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"JD (Jiandong) Zheng" <jdzheng@...adcom.com>,
	Arun Parameswaran <arunp@...adcom.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] phy: iproc-mdio: Initial iProc MDC/MDIO support

On 21/05/15 14:35, Ray Jui wrote:
> On 5/21/2015 6:12 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wednesday 20 May 2015 06:53 AM, Ray Jui wrote:
>>> This adds the support for the iProc MDC/MDIO interface. Multiple iProc
>>> SoCs contain the MDC/MDIO interface that can be used for the host to
>>> communicate with various Serdes/PHYs including Ethernet, PCIe, USB, etc.
>>
>> the term phy used in this driver is misleading. It's not a PHY actually.
>> This sounds more like a bus driver to me and should be present in
>> drivers/bus?
> 
> Sure I can move it to drivers/bus/* if that's more appropriate.
> Typically MDIO is used with Ethernet PHYs and most people register it to
> the mii bus under drivers/net/ethernet. Our case is rare, where the same
> MDIO interface is shared by the Ethernet PHY and other types of PHYs.
> But yeah that does not change the fact that this is more of a bus type
> of driver than a PHY driver.
> 
> I checked the maintainers' list and found apparently there's no
> maintainer for drivers/bus/*? In this case, who is supposed to ack and
> send a pull request for the patch?

In the case of drivers/bus/brcmstb_gisb.c I sent change via an arm-soc
pull request relating to driver/SoC code changes, and Arnd merged these
changes the same way he did merge changes for code in arch/arm/
-- 
Florian
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