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Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 23:49:18 +0300 From: Vladimir Oltean To: Inochi Amaoto Cc: Vinod Koul , Andy Shevchenko , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Neil Armstrong , Manivannan Sadhasivam , Rhys Tumelty , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, Yixun Lan , Longbin Li Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] phy: core: Add phy bulk data helper functions Message-ID: <20261005163245.x5x3gv2habdk2xe2@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, Oct 05, 2026 at 07:41:52PM +0800, Inochi Amaoto wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2026 at 12:12:51PM +0200, Vinod Koul wrote: > > On 29-09-26, 16:52, Inochi Amaoto wrote: > > > Add several helper functions that allow drivers to get several phy > > > consumers in one operation. If any of the phy cannot be acquired then > > > any phys that were got will be put before returning to the caller. > > > > Do we have many such examples? Phy is not a many resource like > > clock/regulators... Do we really need this. How many in kernel users > > will benefit from this API? > > > > > I guess the following driver may benefit from bulk api. Most of them > are PCIe drivers.... > > drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c > drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence.c > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-tegra194.c > drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.c > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-qcom.c > > Note: I mean the bulk api, not just the things I added. I guess many > may want devm_phy_bulk_get() or devm_of_phy_bulk_get() instead of > devm_phy_bulk_get_all(). > > Regards, > Inochi Why didn't you try to convert some of them, to make the case for your patch set stronger?