RE: [RFC PATCH 1/2] usb: Add physical layer utility code

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Hi, Heikki:
	
	What's the status? Are you still doing on this patch? Looking forward to the next version.

BR
Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-usb-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-usb-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heikki Krogerus
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 3:44 PM
> To: Sascha Hauer
> Cc: Pavan Kondeti; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alexander Shishkin; Chen
> Peter-B29397
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] usb: Add physical layer utility code
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 01:44:14PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > Currently we have the situation that host and device driver are
> > > completely unaware of each other, at least on most architectures.
> > > >From what we have in the tree I like the msm usb otg best, apart
> > > from the fact that it's a platform specific solution. It's even not
> > > complicsted to make it work on i.MX and therefore probably on other
> > > architectures aswell.
> >
> > I think these kind of things should be considered after we have the
> > basic phy support separated from otg, so not at this stage. I'm not
> > sure how it would work with Felipe's idea of keeping everything as
> > flexible as possible.
> >
> > I can only point out that there should not be anything preventing
> > something like pci card or sdio card providing a controller and a
> > transceiver to the system, so relying on platform data may not be
> > enough.
> 
> How would you guys feel if the transceiver would be matched in several
> ways? ULPI transceivers can be matched at runtime, as you can always read
> the product and the vendor id. Other interfaces will need to be handled
> differently. I guess with UTMI, there is no need for transceiver driver,
> or it's enough to have one for all of them. Well, in most cases... :). We
> would in any case always have what Sascha suggested as the last way of
> matching the transceiver.
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
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