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Date:   Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:20:39 +0200
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
To:     Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: Change the configuration interface param to void*
 to make it more general
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:04:08AM +0800, Zeng Tao wrote:
> The phy framework now allows runtime configurations, but only limited
> to mipi now, and it's not reasonable to introduce user specified
> configurations into the union phy_configure_opts structure. An simple
> way is to replace with a void *.

I'm not sure why it's unreasonable?

> We have already got some phy drivers which introduce private phy API
> for runtime configurations, and with this patch, they can switch to
> the phy_configure as a replace.

If you have a custom mode of operation, then you'll need a custom
phy_mode as well, and surely you can have a custom set of parameters.

Since those functions are meant to provide a two-way negotiation of
the various parameters, you'll have to have that structure shared
between the two either way, so the only thing required in addition to
what you would have passing a void is one line to add that structure
in the union.

That's barely unreasonable.

Maxime

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