On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:17:29PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > +menuconfig GENERIC_PHY > + tristate "PHY Subsystem" > + help > + Generic PHY support. > + > + This framework is designed to provide a generic interface for PHY > + devices present in the kernel. This layer will have the generic > + API by which phy drivers can create PHY using the phy framework and > + phy users can obtain reference to the PHY. Shouldn't this be something that other drivers select? How will anyone know if they need this or not? > --- /dev/null > +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c > @@ -0,0 +1,544 @@ > +/* > + * phy-core.c -- Generic Phy framework. > + * > + * Copyright (C) 2013 Texas Instruments > + * > + * Author: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> > + * > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the > + * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your > + * option) any later version. You really mean "any later version" (I have to ask)? > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > + * GNU General Public License for more details. > + * > + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > + * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Are these two paragraphs needed? This isn't a "program", and they got a copy of the GPL already with the kernel. > +static struct class *phy_class; Why do you need a class? When modifying/adding new sysfs stuff, you need a Documentation/ABI/ entry as well. thanks, greg k-h -- 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