Hi, On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:25:00PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 18 June 2013 06:05 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:43:44PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >>>>On Tuesday 18 June 2013 03:14 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >>>>>On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 02:13:55PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >>>>>>In order for controllers to get PHY in case of non dt boot, the phy > >>>>>>binding information (phy device name) should be added in the platform > >>>>>>data of the controller. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> > >>>>> > >>>>>I would rather not pass strings around, any other way to handle this ? > >>>>>Why do you need to pass this string ? > >>>> > >>>>Our old way of binding the controller and the phy using device name > >>>>started creating problems after the devices are created using > >>>>PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO. Infact non-dt boot is broken in mainline for > >>>>OMAP3 platforms for which I have posted a RFC series > >>>>http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,708632 which also uses > >>>>strings. > >>>>I'm not sure of any other way to deal with this. > >>> > >>>have you checked how other frameworks handle it ? Regulator has some > >>>sort of binding in board-files, but I guess it passes the regulator > >>>name? > >> > >> From whatever I could make of, regulator has 3 ways to get the > >>regulator one of which is using the binding in board-files (but it > >>also uses device name which could create the same problem that we are > >>facing). > >> > >>1.) from dt data > >>2.) from _supply_ name > >>3.) from binding in board file > >> > >>(referred regulator_dev_lookup() in regulator/core.c) > > > >right, spot on. Which means we don't have a better, more elegant > >solution now. Let's go ahead with this. > > Ok. So I'll drop RFC and resend this patch series > http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,708632 please do :-) -- balbi
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