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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/9] usb: phy: add the Berlin USB PHY driver
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Hi,

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Antoine Ténart
<antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:09:06PM +0530, Vivek Gautam wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Antoine Ténart
>> <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > Add the driver driving the Marvell Berlin USB PHY. This allows to
>> > initialize the PHY and to use it from the USB driver later.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, going forward we would like to have phy drivers based on
>> generic phy framework (drivers/phy).
>> Any particular reason that we are still adding phy drivers in usb-phy layer ?
>>
>> Looking at it, seems like it can very well be written based on phy framework.
>
> This USB controller are ChipIdea compatible, and the ChipIdea common
> functions use the usb_phy framework. That's why this PHY driver is
> there.

Ok, i see that now. In that case shouldn't we be moving even the chipidea
drivers to use the generic phy functions to get the phy and init/exit it.

I think Felipe and Kishon can comment on this better, and tell how
things should be. :-)

[snip]


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Best Regards
Vivek Gautam
Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore
India
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