[CCing more DT-folks :)] 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dri-devel mailing list >> dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Best regards, Tomasz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
