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Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 14:57:12 +0300 From: Vladimir Oltean To: Inochi Amaoto Cc: Vinod Koul , Neil Armstrong , Manivannan Sadhasivam , Andy Shevchenko , linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yixun Lan , Longbin Li Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] phy: core: Add phy bulk helpers support Message-ID: <20260907115712.dg5pw4ajvrtdipey@skbuf> References: <20260904083709.425893-1-inochiama@gmail.com> <20260907102849.w7yn43x6m3f2rnuj@skbuf> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 07:29:49PM +0800, Inochi Amaoto wrote: > Yes, I have one for it. This is the spacemit pcie driver. > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260907112606.465778-1-inochiama@gmail.com/ > > But it only uses a few of these helpers. So should I remove all the > things that are not directly used, and let others add these if they > need? How many functions would go away, and how difficult would they be to reconstruct, if we only were to add them on an "as-needed" basis? If the answer is "many", I suppose you could also leave a note in phy.rst that links to v2 and mentions unimplemented functions because they lack a user.