Hi, On Tuesday 15 December 2015 08:56 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> [151215 04:47]: >> On Tuesday 15 December 2015 05:25 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Can you explain here what the conversion is good for? Why do you >>>>> prefer the syscon mapping over a high-level driver in this case? >>>> >>>> phy-omap-control driver was added when there was no proper >>>> infrastructure for doing control module initializations. The >>>> phy-omap-control driver is not an 'actual' PHY driver and it >>>> was just a hack to do PHY related control module initializations. >>>> phy-omap-control is also getting unmanageable with the number of >>>> platforms each having number of modules (like USB, SATA, PCIe), >>>> using the same driver for control module initializations. >>>> >>>> Now with SYSCON framework being added to the kernel, phy-omap-control >>>> shouldn't be needed and it also provides a uniform API across all the >>>> modules to program the control module. >>> >>> Ok, so the "phy-control" devices were really just a few registers of >>> a system controller device that does a lot of other things as well, right? >> >> right. >>> >>> Can you put your description above into the cover-letter for the series, >>> and the merge commit? > > Just to confirm.. Seems like this series keeps USB working and the dts > changes can be done later after the driver changes have been merged? that's right Tony. Will merge this series by tomorrow if I don't get any review comments. Thanks Kishon > > Regards, > > Tony > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
