Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 May 2023 13:01:34 +0200 | From | "Arnd Bergmann" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] usb: phy: Add driver for the Realtek SoC USB 2.0/3.0 PHY |
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On Fri, May 19, 2023, at 12:58, Stanley Chang[昌育德] wrote: >> >> I'm pretty sure that drivers/usb/phy/ is deprecated now... >> >> New drivers should be written for the generic PHY subsystem in >> drivers/phy/.
Indeed, I missed that in my review.
> Thanks for your reminder. > Will drivers/usb/phy be removed? > Is it not allowed to add new drivers? > > In our application, driver/phy is not suitable. > We need to notify the phy driver when the USB hub port status changes. > However, generic PHY drivers are designed for various device's PHY. > And it seems inappropriate to add this function. So we choose to use > driver/usb/phy.
If you run into something that works in the old usbphy layer but can't be done in drivers/phy, I think the better solution would be to change the drivers/phy/ code to add this.
Arnd
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