Re: [PATCH for-4.11 1/2] Revert "phy: Add USB3 PHY support for Broadcom NSP SoC"

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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/08/2017 03:30 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This reverts commit d7bc1a7d41bf ("phy: Add USB3 PHY support for
>> Broadcom NSP SoC") as we already have driver for this PHY (shared by NS
>> and NSP). It was added in commit e5666281d9ea ("phy: bcm-ns-usb3: new
>> driver for USB 3.0 PHY on Northstar").
>>
>> Instead of adding separated driver & duplicating code we should work on
>> improving existing (old) one. Thanks to work done by Broadcom we know
>> there is MDIO bus we weren't aware of & we know register names which
>> makes initialization more clear. This is very valuable info and we
>> should work on using it in existing driver afterwards.
>
> Should not we first extend the old driver to support NSP and then revert
> d7bc1a7d41bf ("phy: Add USB3 PHY support for Broadcom NSP SoC")?

I am currently in the process of doing this, but I'm guessing that I
am 1-2 weeks away from having it completed.  It might not hit the
merge window.

Thanks,
Jon

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