Hi, On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:44:49PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 11:16 AM, 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. > > > > This framework will be of use only to devices that uses external PHY (PHY > > functionality is not embedded within the controller). > > > > The intention of creating this framework is to bring the phy drivers spread > > all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and to > > increase code maintainability. > > > > Comments to make PHY as bus wasn't done because PHY devices can be part of > > other bus and making a same device attached to multiple bus leads to bad > > design. > > > > If the PHY driver has to send notification on connect/disconnect, the PHY > > driver should make use of the extcon framework. Using this susbsystem > > to use extcon framwork will have to be analysed. > > > > You can find this patch series @ > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kishon/linux-phy.git testing > > Looks like there are not further comments on this series. Can you take this in > your misc tree? Do you want me to queue these for you ? There are quite a few users for this framework already and I know of at least 2 others which will show up for v3.13. Let me know. cheers -- balbi
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