Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] phy: Add exynos-simple-phy driver

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On 07.05.2014 16:19, Rahul Sharma wrote:
> On 7 May 2014 19:06, Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 05/07/2014 12:38 PM, Rahul Sharma wrote:
>>> On 5 May 2014 15:14, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 09 April 2014 03:31 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/04/14 11:12, Rahul Sharma wrote:
>>>>>> Idea looks good. How about keeping compatible which is independent
>>>>>> of SoC, something like "samsung,exynos-simple-phy" and provide Reg
>>>>>> and Bit through phy provider node. This way we can avoid SoC specific
>>>>>> hardcoding in phy driver and don't need to look into dt bindings for
>>>>>> each new SoC.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe it is a not recommended approach.
>>>>
>>>> Why not? We should try to avoid hard coding in the driver code. Moreover by
>>>> avoiding hardcoding we can make it a generic driver for single bit PHYs.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1.
>>>
>>> @Tomasz, any plans to consider this approach for simple phy driver?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rahul Sharma.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Rahul,
>> Initially, I wanted to make a very generic driver and to add bit and
>> register (or its offset) attribute to the PHY node.
>> However, there was a very strong opposition from DT maintainers
>> to adding any bit related configuration to DT.
>> The current solution was designed to be a trade-off between
>> being generic and being accepted :).
>>
> 
> Thanks Tomasz,
> Ok got it. lets discuss it again and conclude it.
> 
> @Kishon, DT-folks,
> 
> The original RFC patch from Tomasz (at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/21/313)
> added simple phy driver as "Generic-simple-phy" with these properties:
> 
> + of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "mask", &sphy->mask);
> + of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "on-value", &sphy->on_value);
> + of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "off-value", &sphy->off_value);
> 
> Shall we consider the same solution again for generic simple phy
> driver which just expose on/off control through register bit.
> 
> Regards,
> Rahul Sharma
> 
>> Regards,
>> Tomasz Stanislawski
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Kishon
>>>
>>
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Tomasz
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