Re: [PATCH RFC] usb: chipidea: add support for usb_phy in generic usb2

From: Peter Chen
Date: Thu Jan 08 2015 - 22:13:38 EST


On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:09:35AM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 04 January 2015 11:58 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_usb2.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > I'm sending this as RFC as I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. There
> > seems to be a move away from USB specific PHY drivers towards the generic PHY
> > framework (drivers/phy). The trouble is that my PHY is similar to the mxs PHY
> > (phy-mxs-usb.c), and like mxs I need the notify_connect/notify_disconnect
> > callbacks. This functionality is not available is the generic PHY
> > framework. Having support for both 'usb-phy' and 'phy' properties (as dwc3
> > seems to do) is particularly bad, since the distinction between the two is a
> > Linux implementation detail that has nothing to do with hardware description.
> >
> > So my questions are:
> >
> > 1. Is there a plan to add notifications support to the generic PHY?
> >
> > 2. If not, what are my options?
>
> extcon framework has notification support. I feel your driver should use the
> extcon framework along with phy framework.
>
> Adding extcon support in the generic PHY framework is something I have not
> thought through in detail.
>

Hi Kishon & Felipe

This is also my concern, we will not accept the new usb phy driver using
current usb_phy interface any more, how usb phy specific interfaces are
existed at generic phy, any plans?

> >
> > Thanks,
> > baruch
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_usb2.c b/drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_usb2.c
> > index 45844c951788..cc3aeb781a57 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_usb2.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_usb2.c
> > @@ -35,11 +35,16 @@ static int ci_hdrc_usb2_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> > struct ci_hdrc_usb2_priv *priv;
> > struct ci_hdrc_platform_data *ci_pdata = dev_get_platdata(dev);
> > + struct usb_phy *usb_phy;
> > int ret;
> >
> > if (!ci_pdata)
> > ci_pdata = &ci_default_pdata;
> >
> > + usb_phy = devm_usb_get_phy_by_phandle(&pdev->dev, "usb-phy", 0);
> > + if (!IS_ERR(usb_phy))
> > + ci_pdata->usb_phy = usb_phy;
> > +
> > priv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!priv)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >

--

Best Regards,
Peter Chen
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