Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:27:25 +0300 | From | Felipe Balbi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 5/9] ARM: OMAP: USB: Add phy binding information |
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > On Tuesday 18 June 2013 03:14 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 02:13:55PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >>In order for controllers to get PHY in case of non dt boot, the phy > >>binding information (phy device name) should be added in the platform > >>data of the controller. > >> > >>Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> > > > >I would rather not pass strings around, any other way to handle this ? > >Why do you need to pass this string ? > > Our old way of binding the controller and the phy using device name > started creating problems after the devices are created using > PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO. Infact non-dt boot is broken in mainline for > OMAP3 platforms for which I have posted a RFC series > http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,708632 which also uses > strings. > I'm not sure of any other way to deal with this.
have you checked how other frameworks handle it ? Regulator has some sort of binding in board-files, but I guess it passes the regulator name?
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