linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] phy: use syscon framework APIs to set ctrl mod reg

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:56:34 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
Cc:	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org, pawel.moll@....com,
	mark.rutland@....com, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
	galak@...eaurora.org, rogerq@...com, nsekhar@...com,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	tony@...mide.com, t-kristo@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] phy: use syscon framework APIs to set ctrl mod reg

On Tuesday 15 December 2015 14:45:59 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> This series is basically to deprecate using phy-omap-control and use
> syscon APIs to program the control module registers.
> 
> Changes from v2:
> No changes.
> 
> Changes from v1:
> *) cleanup ti_pipe3_probe in multiple steps
> *) other minor cleanups
> 
> Changes from [1] in PHY patches include
> *) cleanup ti_pipe3_probe
> *) have mask, power_on and power_off values in usb_phy_data for
>    omap-usb2 phy
> 
> The patches have been pushed to
>         git://git.ti.com/linux-phy/linux-phy.git syscon
> 
> [1] -> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/23/189
> 
> All the testing was done both before applying the dt patches and after
> applying the dt patches (dt patches will be posted shortly).
> 

Can you explain here what the conversion is good for? Why do you
prefer the syscon mapping over a high-level driver in this case?

	Arnd
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