On 04/03/2013 06:53 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > The PHY framework 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. > > PHY drivers should create the PHY by passing phy_descriptor that has > describes the PHY (label, type etc..) and ops like init, exit, suspend, resume, > power_on, power_off. > > The documentation for the generic PHY framework is added in > Documentation/phy.txt and the documentation for the sysfs entry is added > in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-phy and the documentation for > dt binding is can be found at > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt > diff --git a/include/linux/phy/phy.h b/include/linux/phy/phy.h > +extern struct phy *devm_phy_create(struct device *dev, const char *label, > + struct device_node *of_node, int type, struct phy_ops *ops, > + void *priv); Can't the function get of_node from dev->of_node? I wonder if we shouldn't split up the registration a bit though: A function which registers a PHY object itself. That's the function above. A function which registers a DT-based PHY provider. Then, the of_xlate op would be part of the PHY provider, not part of some random PHY that happens to exist on that node. So: struct phy { struct device *dev; struct module *owner; int (*init)(struct phy *phy); int (*exit)(struct phy *phy); int (*suspend)(struct phy *phy); int (*resume)(struct phy *phy); int (*power_on)(struct phy *phy); int (*power_off)(struct phy *phy); }; int phy_register(struct phy *phy); All PHY providers would use that API, whether running in a DT-base system or not. struct of_phy_provider { struct device *dev; struct phy * (*of_xlate)(struct of_phy_provider *provider, struct of_phandle_args *args); }; int phy_register_of_provider(struct of_phy_provider *provider); Only DT-based PHY providers would use that API. ... or something like that? phy_get() would do something like: if dev->of_node: # look up using registerd of_phy_providers phy = phy_get_of(...) if phy: return phy # now look up using whatever other mapping table exists phy = ... return phy -- 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