From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754354Ab2IQNYP (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:24:15 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog125.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.153]:50707 "EHLO na3sys009aog125.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754044Ab2IQNYL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:24:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:19:29 +0300 From: Felipe Balbi To: "ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY" Cc: Chen Peter-B29397 , "balbi@ti.com" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , Zhao Richard-B20223 , "alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com" , "mkl@pengutronix.de" , "marex@denx.de" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework Message-ID: <20120917131926.GA7699@arwen.pp.htv.fi> Reply-To: balbi@ti.com References: <1347623899-14485-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline 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 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:19:53AM +0530, ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Chen Peter-B29397 = wrote: > > > >> > >> The PHY framework provides a set of API's for the PHY drivers to > >> create/remove a PHY and the PHY users to obtain a reference to the PHY > >> using or without using phandle. If the PHY users has to obtain a > >> reference to > >> the PHY without using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code > >> (say > >> from board file) should have already called phy_bind with the binding > >> information. The binding information consists of phy's device name, phy > >> user device name and an index. The index is used when the same phy user > >> binds to mulitple phys. > >> > > > > What's an example of "the same phy user binds to multiple phys"? >=20 > Single controller using multiple phys.. to be more specific here: any usb3 controller needs a USB2 PHY and USB3 PHY. --=20 balbi --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQVyNeAAoJEIaOsuA1yqREBdIP/2EL70mqU8ZLI71u0ZEEm9C4 +QauV2QZZ22NGjpXIZCCNsrHAOtFeSGB/8kkJ8QWGklCP2SxUw6XDe9FbMz+uCWd J92bFmo0zXVwFtilziksfTBeP9n3WSbHJvtGP+eN3QjD+WOXMMsk5ujaBjUj2ck+ 3q3dmRINJLK+2Pz4FJFOmAGApaJZdftvgMNMT0QbFz8sAC8Mr4i7wKT2d/Rcyp0G TMZBpRwCh6iCs0Lz64+aij98LeNPRAeHZG6n3keia77UQsm+giVX990XvSt1J1e4 CLt8eEz0EaTWPrFYs1cVPxZL8/bnFvWawf7oPXcD2Pmu5ybIGROcQMdYEokUOeYg JkACqLsmY/0czDOChYLABHv7sQQlXhWlOzupPnpHapiFUkL7Eys1bISBkV3cAvvd 4uvTtZfA6FHTy8cN+twXUk1ardBgnSA42YI4TXmqmCzKJW4+1il0YZ8TkMKUHBya qRxysPvIqSDPCXXFeSRdZsHApMq0Qagi4SgWCnX+vP4mrrGiGoSIKuLlvxGc6HIF dsAmjRer41+HoksFpzD2x2ZAxxFPniLzI/OtwPvpsn3hLuipt9sy4LHO/F/zYApq 2Nbbl9CrzxuVs5zCcv/uy3XCAVQ0QBrA9gabFERFDaERpw+gN0VDpWpt00quXeL9 9aP4/41rFLyubYuHE4LU =I1Qg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--