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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:50:28 +0000 From: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk> To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> CC: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-sh@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add init-regs for of_phy support On 17/02/14 13:44, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:08:04PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote: >> Add new init-regs field for of_phy nodes and make sure these >> get applied when the phy is configured. >> >> This allows any phy node in an fdt to initialise registers >> that may not be set as standard by the driver at initialisation >> time, such as LED controls. > > Why not have a driver for the particular PHY? If it's not standard we > don't need to pretend it is. If it has some extensions then the standard > compatible string can be a fallback entry in the compatible list. I was trying to provide some useful and reasonably generic code to setup PHYs without having to add specific arguments to each of them. I could have added something like ksz8041,led-mode1 = <1> and updated the micrel driver. -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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