On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:51:41PM +0300, Roger Quadros wrote: > Convert PHY Drivers from menuconfig to menu so that the PHY drivers > can be explicitely selected by the controller drivers. > > USB_PHY is no longer a user visible option. It is upto to the PHY > drivers to select it if needed. This patch does so for the existing > PHY drivers that use the USB_PHY library. > > Doing so moves the USB_PHY and PHY driver selection problem from the > end user to the PHY and controller driver developer. > > e.g. > > Earlier, a controller driver (e.g. EHCI_OMAP) that needs to select > a PHY driver (e.g. NOP_PHY) couldn't do so because the PHY driver > depended on USB_PHY. Making the controller driver depend on USB_PHY > has a negative effect i.e. it becomes invisible to the user till > USB_PHY is enabled. Most end users will not familiar with this. > > With this patch, the end user just needs to select the controller driver > needed for his/her platform without worrying about which PHY driver to > select. > > Also update USB_EHCI_MSM, USB_LPC32XX and USB_OMAP to not depend > on USB_PHY any more. They can safely select the necessary PHY drivers. > > CC: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> > [USB_LPC32XX part] Acked-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> There is one problem (?) with this: phy-core.ko will never be a module. If that's not a problem for anyone, I guess this is safe to apply. I'll wait a little longer until merge window closes to give people some extra time to shout. -- balbi
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