On 21-01-13 12:18:35, Stephan Gerhold wrote: > > Also, on a completely different note I looked again at the chipidea USB > driver that produces this situation. To request the PHY (which ends up > in the circular device link) it does: > > /* Look for a generic PHY first */ > ci->phy = devm_phy_get(dev->parent, "usb-phy"); > > To me it doesn't really seem great to use the devm_* helpers on the > parent device either, so I will check if I can refactor this somehow. > Perhaps this situation can be prevented entirely. > Hi Stephan, You could try to get the PHY at parent driver (drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_msm.c) to see the difference. -- Thanks, Peter Chen