On 5/21/2015 2:51 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 21/05/15 14:35, Ray Jui wrote: >> On 5/21/2015 6:12 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Wednesday 20 May 2015 06:53 AM, Ray Jui wrote: >>>> This adds the support for the iProc MDC/MDIO interface. Multiple iProc >>>> SoCs contain the MDC/MDIO interface that can be used for the host to >>>> communicate with various Serdes/PHYs including Ethernet, PCIe, USB, etc. >>> >>> the term phy used in this driver is misleading. It's not a PHY actually. >>> This sounds more like a bus driver to me and should be present in >>> drivers/bus? >> >> Sure I can move it to drivers/bus/* if that's more appropriate. >> Typically MDIO is used with Ethernet PHYs and most people register it to >> the mii bus under drivers/net/ethernet. Our case is rare, where the same >> MDIO interface is shared by the Ethernet PHY and other types of PHYs. >> But yeah that does not change the fact that this is more of a bus type >> of driver than a PHY driver. >> >> I checked the maintainers' list and found apparently there's no >> maintainer for drivers/bus/*? In this case, who is supposed to ack and >> send a pull request for the patch? > > In the case of drivers/bus/brcmstb_gisb.c I sent change via an arm-soc > pull request relating to driver/SoC code changes, and Arnd merged these > changes the same way he did merge changes for code in arch/arm/ >
Thanks for the tip, Florian! Ray -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
