Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] phy: phy-core: allow specifying supply at port level

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 21 March 2015 02:55 AM, Arun Ramamurthy wrote:
>> Multi-port phy's may have per-port power supplies. Let's change phy core
>> to first attempt to look up the supply at the port level, and then, if
>> not found, check parent device.
>
> Why not just have every port provide the power supply if it needs?
> I don't think checking for parent device should be present in the phy-core at
> all.

We need to do that if we want to keep compatibility with the current
DTSes: before this patch the supply would be always looked up on
device and not port level.

Thanks,
Dmitry
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