Re: Bug: shared usb dt document is incorrect

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 06:06:30PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Antoine and Rob,
> 
> I was just doing some testing with USB on a Qualcomm SoC.
> 
> I followed the instructions in the binding document:
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/ci-hdrc-usb2.txt
> 
> which has a compatible for "qcom,ci-hdrc", and is, in general,
> for chipidea-based USB controllers.
> 
> It says in the document that the property usb-phy is deprecated, and to
> use phys and phy-names instead.  However, the Qualcomm
> driver for this still uses usb-phy.  That driver is in:
> drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_msm.c
> 
> I'm guessing I should update the Qualcomm driver to use
> phys and phy-names, but wanted to check with you-all to
> verify that this is the preferred method of getting 
> phys by phandle now.  It's either change the driver
> or make an exception in the binding document, I believe.
> 
> I presume I should be changing devm_usb_get_phy_by_phandle()
> to of_phy_get(), but let me know if there's more to it than that.
> 
> In case I change the driver, do I then update the binding doc
> to remove the information about the deprecated property, or not?
> 
> Please advise.

In my opinion, you can just keep both driver and binding doc unchanging
until the generic PHY supports all things the current USB PHY supports,
eg, .notify_disconnect is used in your PHY driver, but it is not
supported in generic PHY framework.

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen
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