Re: [PATCH 4/9] usb: phy: add the Berlin USB PHY driver

From: Antoine Ténart
Date: Fri Jun 06 2014 - 03:11:22 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:09:06PM +0530, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Antoine Ténart
> <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Add the driver driving the Marvell Berlin USB PHY. This allows to
> > initialize the PHY and to use it from the USB driver later.
>
> Just out of curiosity, going forward we would like to have phy drivers based on
> generic phy framework (drivers/phy).
> Any particular reason that we are still adding phy drivers in usb-phy layer ?
>
> Looking at it, seems like it can very well be written based on phy framework.

This USB controller are ChipIdea compatible, and the ChipIdea common
functions use the usb_phy framework. That's why this PHY driver is
there.

Antoine

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