On Thursday 25 September 2014 12:30 PM, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Assume you have 2 phys in your system..
>>>>>>>>> static struct phy_lookup usb_lookup = {
>>>>>>>>> .phy_name = "phy-usb.0",
>>>>>>>>> .dev_id = "usb.0",
>>>>>>>>> .con_id = "usb",
>>>>>>>>> };
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> static struct phy_lookup sata_lookup = {
>>>>>>>>> .phy_name = "sata-usb.1",
>>>>>>>>> .dev_id = "sata.0",
>>>>>>>>> .con_id = "sata",
>>>>>>>>> };
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> First you do modprobe phy-usb, the probe of USB PHY driver gets
>>>>>>>>> invoked and it
>>>>>>>>> creates the PHY. The phy-core will find a free id (now it will be 0)
>>>>>>>>> and then
>>>>>>>>> name the phy as phy-usb.0.
>>>>>>>>> Then with modprobe phy-sata, the phy-core will create phy-sata.1.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is an ideal case where the .phy_name in phy_lookup matches.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Consider if the order is flipped and the user does modprobe phy-sata
>>>>>>>>> first. The
>>>>>>>>> phy_names won't match anymore (the sata phy device name would be
>>>>>>>>> "sata-usb.0").
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, I don't think there would be this problem if we used the
>>>>>>> name of the actual device which is the parent of phy devices, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hmm.. but if the parent is a multi-phy phy provider (like pipe3 PHY
>>>>>> driver), we
>>>>>> might end up with the same problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not completely sure what you mean? If you are talking about
>>>>> platforms with multiple instances of a single phy, I don't see how
>>>>> there could ever be a scenario where we did not know the order in
>>>>> which they were enumerated. Can you give an example again?
>>>>
>>>> If a single IP implements multiple PHYs (phy-miphy365x.c in linux-phy
>>>> next),
>>>> the parent for all the phy devices would be the same.
>
> Hold on...
>
> Let's take a step back here. Where could we actually have a scenario
> where the phy device, the dev_id (consumer) and the con_id would all
> be the same? There can't be such a case.
>
> It's not like you could ever have a driver requesting multiple phys
> with the same con_id. You would just get the same phy handle even if
> you used dt.
>
> phy1 = phy_get(dev, "phy");
> ...
> phy2 = phy_get(dev, "phy");
>
> And if the drivers requesting those phys are different, your consumers
> are different.
sounds right to me.
Cheers
Kishon
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