Hi Arnd,

On Wednesday 24 July 2013 20:32:03 Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 23 July 2013, Tomasz Figa wrote:

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On Tuesday 23 of July 2013 17:14:20 Alan Stern wrote:

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Tomasz Figa wrote:

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Where would you want to have those phy_address arrays stored? There
are no board files when booting with DT. Not even saying that you
don't need to use any hacky schemes like this when you have DT that
nicely specifies relations between devices.

If everybody agrees DT has a nice scheme for specifying relations
between devices, why not use that same scheme in the PHY core?

It is already used, for cases when consumer device has a DT node attached.
In non-DT case this kind lookup translates loosely to something that is
being done in regulator framework - you can't bind devices by pointers,
because you don't have those pointers, so you need to use device names.

Sorry for jumping in to the middle of the discussion, but why does a *new*
framework even bother defining an interface for board files?

Can't we just drop any interfaces for platform data passing in the phy
framework and put the burden of adding those to anyone who actually needs
them? All the platforms we are concerned with here (exynos and omap, plus
new platforms) can be booted using DT anyway.

What about non-DT architectures such as MIPS (still widely used in consumer 
networking equipments from what I've heard) ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart