Hi Kishon, On 3/20/2013 2:41 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Added a generic PHY framework that provides a set of APIs for the PHY drivers > to create/destroy a PHY and APIs for the PHY users to obtain a reference to > the PHY with or without using phandle. To obtain a reference to the PHY > without using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code (say from board > file) should have already called phy_bind with the binding information. The > binding information consists of phy's device name, phy user device name and an > index. The index is used when the same phy user binds to mulitple phys. > > This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY > functionality is not embedded within the controller). >From a top level what you are doing looks closely related to External connector (extcon). I understand a connector is not the same as a phy, but it will still be useful to know why extcon framework (or some extension of it) will not suffice your needs. You can probably note it in the cover-letter so folks like me get their answer. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
