Re: [PATCH 1/3] phy: rockchip-usb: should be a child device of the GRF

From: Heiko Stübner
Date: Sat Apr 30 2016 - 16:07:44 EST


Hi Kishon,

Am Dienstag, 19. April 2016, 08:13:47 schrieb Heiko Stübner:
> Hi Kishon.
>
> Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2016, 15:43:30 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
> > The usb-phy is fully enclosed in the general register files (GRF).
> > Therefore as seen from the device-tree it shouldn't be a separate
> > platform-
> > device but instead a sub-device of the GRF - using the simply-mfd
> > mechanism.
> >
> > As the usb-phy is part of the kernel for some releases now, we keep
> > the old (and now deprecated) binding for compatibility purposes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> could you look into picking this patch up for 4.7?
>
> Same principle as for the other phy drivers, but it's already in the kernel
> for a while, so it gets a fallback for the old binding and can go through
> the normal way.
>
> The other two (devicetree-)patches I would then simply queue for 4.8 myself
> after you're fine with the driver-side.

just saw that you already have a tag for 4.7-related phy changes since this
afternoon, but no phy pull to Greg on lkml yet.

So maybe there is still a way for this phy conversion (to be under the
Rockchip GRF node) to make it in for 4.7 :-) ?


Thanks
Heiko