Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] phy: Add exynos-simple-phy driver

[Rahul Sharma]

On 5 May 2014 15:14, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 09 April 2014 03:31 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 09/04/14 11:12, Rahul Sharma wrote:
>>> Idea looks good. How about keeping compatible which is independent
>>> of SoC, something like "samsung,exynos-simple-phy" and provide Reg
>>> and Bit through phy provider node. This way we can avoid SoC specific
>>> hardcoding in phy driver and don't need to look into dt bindings for
>>> each new SoC.
>>
>> I believe it is a not recommended approach.
>
> Why not? We should try to avoid hard coding in the driver code. Moreover by
> avoiding hardcoding we can make it a generic driver for single bit PHYs.
>

+1.

@Tomasz, any plans to consider this approach for simple phy driver?

Regards,
Rahul Sharma.

> Cheers
> Kishon
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