On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 12:06:51PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > The recently added Realtek PHY drivers depend on the new port status > notification mechanism which was built on the deprecated USB PHY > implementation and devicetree binding. > > Specifically, using these PHYs would require describing the very same > PHY using both the generic "phy" property and the deprecated "usb-phy" > property which is clearly wrong. > > We should not be building new functionality on top of the legacy USB PHY > implementation even if it is currently stuck in some kind of > transitional limbo. > > Revert the new Realtek PHY drivers for now so that the port status > notification interface can be reverted and replaced before we dig > ourselves into an even deeper hole with this PHY mess. > > Note that there are no upstream users of these PHYs and the drivers were > only included in 6.6 so there should still be time to undo this. No users of these phy drivers yet? Why were they added? > Preferably these should go in through Greg's tree for 6.7-rc1. I'll be glad to take this if I can get an ack for it. thanks, greg k-h
