Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751916AbbDUFis (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:38:48 -0400 Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:60133 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbbDUFiq (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:38:46 -0400 Message-ID: <5535E234.8010905@ti.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:07:56 +0530 From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arun Ramamurthy , Tony Prisk , Alan Stern , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann , Felipe Balbi , Mathias Nyman , Paul Bolle , Thomas Pugliese , Srinivas Kandagatla , David Mosberger , Peter Griffin , Gregory CLEMENT , Laurent Pinchart , Kevin Hao CC: , , , Dmitry Torokhov , Anatol Pomazau , Jonathan Richardson , Scott Branden , Ray Jui , Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] phy: core: Add devm_of_phy_get_by_index to phy-core References: <1428963047-23666-1-git-send-email-arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> <1428963047-23666-2-git-send-email-arun.ramamurthy@broadcom.com> <552E3699.4020309@ti.com> <55355F5B.6060504@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <55355F5B.6060504@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3921 Lines: 109 Hi, On Tuesday 21 April 2015 01:49 AM, Arun Ramamurthy wrote: > > > On 15-04-15 02:59 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tuesday 14 April 2015 03:40 AM, Arun Ramamurthy wrote: >>> Some generic drivers, such as ehci, may use multiple phys and for such >>> drivers referencing phy(s) by name(s) does not make sense. Instead of >>> inventing new naming schemes and using custom code to iterate through >>> them, >>> such drivers are better of using nameless phy bindings and using this >>> newly >>> introduced API to iterate through them. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Arun Ramamurthy >>> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui >>> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden >>> --- >>> drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> include/linux/phy/phy.h | 2 ++ >>> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c >>> index 3791838..964a84d 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c >>> +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c >>> @@ -623,6 +623,38 @@ struct phy *devm_of_phy_get(struct device *dev, >>> struct device_node *np, >>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_of_phy_get); >>> >>> /** >>> + * devm_of_phy_get_by_index() - lookup and obtain a reference to a >>> phy by index. >>> + * @dev: device that requests this phy >>> + * @np: node containing the phy >>> + * @index: index of the phy >>> + * >>> + * Gets the phy using _of_phy_get(), and associates a device with it >>> using >>> + * devres. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the >>> devres data, >>> + * then, devres data is freed. >>> + * >>> + */ >>> +struct phy *devm_of_phy_get_by_index(struct device *dev, struct >>> device_node *np, >>> + int index) >>> +{ >>> + struct phy **ptr, *phy; >>> + >>> + ptr = devres_alloc(devm_phy_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL); >>> + if (!ptr) >>> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); >>> + >>> + phy = _of_phy_get(np, index); >>> + if (!IS_ERR(phy)) { >>> + *ptr = phy; >>> + devres_add(dev, ptr); >>> + } else { >>> + devres_free(ptr); >>> + } >>> + >>> + return phy; >>> +} >>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_of_phy_get_by_index); >>> + >>> +/** >>> * phy_create() - create a new phy >>> * @dev: device that is creating the new phy >>> * @node: device node of the phy >>> diff --git a/include/linux/phy/phy.h b/include/linux/phy/phy.h >>> index a0197fa..ae2ffaf 100644 >>> --- a/include/linux/phy/phy.h >>> +++ b/include/linux/phy/phy.h >>> @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ struct phy *devm_phy_get(struct device *dev, const >>> char *string); >>> struct phy *devm_phy_optional_get(struct device *dev, const char >>> *string); >>> struct phy *devm_of_phy_get(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np, >>> const char *con_id); >>> +struct phy *devm_of_phy_get_by_index(struct device *dev, struct >>> device_node *np, >>> + int index); >> >> Add stubs for this function too. Also update the Documentation/phy.txt. >> > Kishon, I have added stubs for this function in my next patch set. > However I am still unclear on whether I need to make GENERIC_PHY an > invisible option or change my "select" to "depend" ? It seems like there > was no consensus on this? Do you have any final thoughts before i send > out the next patch set? Thanks You can follow Arnd's suggestion. You can have a separate patch to change the GENERIC_PHY to invisible option and change existing PHY drivers to select GENERIC_PHY. Non-PHY drivers can either use depends on or have no explicit dependency if the PHY is optional for that controller. Thanks Kishon -- 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/