Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 2015 14:51:28 -0700 | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] phy: iproc-mdio: Initial iProc MDC/MDIO support |
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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/ -- Florian
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