Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751876AbaFFHLR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 03:11:17 -0400 Received: from top.free-electrons.com ([176.31.233.9]:40155 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803AbaFFHLQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 03:11:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:11:06 +0200 From: Antoine =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=E9nart?= To: Vivek Gautam Cc: Antoine =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=E9nart?= , kishon , sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com, Felipe Balbi , alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, zmxu@marvell.com, jszhang@marvell.com, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Linux USB Mailing List , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] usb: phy: add the Berlin USB PHY driver Message-ID: <20140606071106.GA30156@kwain> References: <1401983326-19205-1-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <1401983326-19205-5-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:09:06PM +0530, Vivek Gautam wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Antoine T?nart > wrote: > > Add the driver driving the Marvell Berlin USB PHY. This allows to > > initialize the PHY and to use it from the USB driver later. > > Just out of curiosity, going forward we would like to have phy drivers based on > generic phy framework (drivers/phy). > Any particular reason that we are still adding phy drivers in usb-phy layer ? > > Looking at it, seems like it can very well be written based on phy framework. This USB controller are ChipIdea compatible, and the ChipIdea common functions use the usb_phy framework. That's why this PHY driver is there. Antoine -- Antoine T?nart, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/