[PATCH 1/3] phy: rockchip-usb: should be a child device of the GRF

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Hi Kishon,

Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016, 16:28:35 schrieb Kishon Vijay Abraham I:
> On Sunday 01 May 2016 01:37 AM, Heiko St?bner wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 19. April 2016, 08:13:47 schrieb Heiko St?bner:
> >> Am Donnerstag, 31. M?rz 2016, 15:43:30 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
> >>> The usb-phy is fully enclosed in the general register files (GRF).
> >>> Therefore as seen from the device-tree it shouldn't be a separate
> >>> platform-
> >>> device but instead a sub-device of the GRF - using the simply-mfd
> >>> mechanism.
> >>> 
> >>> As the usb-phy is part of the kernel for some releases now, we keep
> >>> the old (and now deprecated) binding for compatibility purposes.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> >> 
> >> could you look into picking this patch up for 4.7?
> >> 
> >> Same principle as for the other phy drivers, but it's already in the
> >> kernel
> >> for a while, so it gets a fallback for the old binding and can go through
> >> the normal way.
> >> 
> >> The other two (devicetree-)patches I would then simply queue for 4.8
> >> myself
> >> after you're fine with the driver-side.
> > 
> > just saw that you already have a tag for 4.7-related phy changes since
> > this
> > afternoon, but no phy pull to Greg on lkml yet.
> > 
> > So maybe there is still a way for this phy conversion (to be under the
> > Rockchip GRF node) to make it in for 4.7 :-) ?
> 
> Looks like I've missed this before sending the pull request. Sorry about
> that. Is it okay if the PHY changes also go in 4.8?

yep, 4.8 is no problem as well. We have the current binding in the kernel for 
so long, that waiting one more kernel release won't be a problem.


Heiko



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