On Thursday 25 September 2014 12:30 PM, Heikki Krogerus wrote: >>>>>>>>> Assume you have 2 phys in your system.. >>>>>>>>> static struct phy_lookup usb_lookup = { >>>>>>>>> .phy_name = "phy-usb.0", >>>>>>>>> .dev_id = "usb.0", >>>>>>>>> .con_id = "usb", >>>>>>>>> }; >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> static struct phy_lookup sata_lookup = { >>>>>>>>> .phy_name = "sata-usb.1", >>>>>>>>> .dev_id = "sata.0", >>>>>>>>> .con_id = "sata", >>>>>>>>> }; >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> First you do modprobe phy-usb, the probe of USB PHY driver gets invoked and it >>>>>>>>> creates the PHY. The phy-core will find a free id (now it will be 0) and then >>>>>>>>> name the phy as phy-usb.0. >>>>>>>>> Then with modprobe phy-sata, the phy-core will create phy-sata.1. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This is an ideal case where the .phy_name in phy_lookup matches. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Consider if the order is flipped and the user does modprobe phy-sata first. The >>>>>>>>> phy_names won't match anymore (the sata phy device name would be "sata-usb.0"). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Actually, I don't think there would be this problem if we used the >>>>>>> name of the actual device which is the parent of phy devices, right? >>>>>> >>>>>> hmm.. but if the parent is a multi-phy phy provider (like pipe3 PHY driver), we >>>>>> might end up with the same problem. >>>>> >>>>> I'm not completely sure what you mean? If you are talking about >>>>> platforms with multiple instances of a single phy, I don't see how >>>>> there could ever be a scenario where we did not know the order in >>>>> which they were enumerated. Can you give an example again? >>>> >>>> If a single IP implements multiple PHYs (phy-miphy365x.c in linux-phy next), >>>> the parent for all the phy devices would be the same. > > Hold on... > > Let's take a step back here. Where could we actually have a scenario > where the phy device, the dev_id (consumer) and the con_id would all > be the same? There can't be such a case. > > It's not like you could ever have a driver requesting multiple phys > with the same con_id. You would just get the same phy handle even if > you used dt. > > phy1 = phy_get(dev, "phy"); > ... > phy2 = phy_get(dev, "phy"); > > And if the drivers requesting those phys are different, your consumers > are different. sounds right to me. Cheers Kishon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html