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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/5] Generic PHY Framework
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On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers
> to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to
> the PHY with or without using phandle. To obtain a reference to the PHY
> without using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code (say from board
> file) should have already called phy_bind with the binding information. The
> binding information consists of phy's device name, phy user device name and an
> index. The index is used when the same phy user binds to mulitple phys.
>
> This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY
> functionality is not embedded within the controller).
>
> The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread
> all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to
> increase code maintainability.
>
> Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of
> other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad
> design.

How does this relate to the generic PHY interfaces in drivers/net/phy?

Do you expect that to get merged into drivers/phy in the long run, or
do you want to keep the generic phy only for everything but ethernet?

I think it would be problematic to have two alternative interfaces for
ethernet PHYs because then an ethernet driver still needs to decide
which subsystem to interface with.

Arnd


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