public inbox for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: kishon@ti•com (kishon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH,RFC] usb: add devicetree helpers for determining dr_mode and phy_type
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:40:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5107D84F.80401@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130129135336.GA3323@pengutronix.de>

On Tuesday 29 January 2013 07:23 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> +	err = of_property_read_string(np, "phy_type", &phy_type);
>>> +	if (err < 0)
>>> +		return USBPHY_INTERFACE_MODE_NA;
>>
>> Why don't we use a u32 property type for the *phy-type*? IMHO we
>> should use string property only when the property should be
>> absolutely unambiguous (e.g., compatible property should be string).
>
> If we would use u32-numbers in the compatible entry, this would also be
> unambiguous, no? 0xd00dfeed would be the at24-driver. Pretty specific.

hehe... But we don't have a corresponding *enum* representing the 
drivers :-)
>
> I don't mind having readable devicetrees. And we have it for ethernet
> phys already with strings, so it would be consistent.

Ok. Fine with it then :-)

Thanks
Kishon

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-29 11:22 [PATCH, RFC] usb: add devicetree helpers for determining dr_mode and phy_type Sascha Hauer
2013-01-29 11:55 ` Alexander Shishkin
2013-01-30  2:06   ` [PATCH,RFC] " Peter Chen
2013-01-30 14:00     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-31  2:05       ` Peter Chen
2013-01-31 10:29         ` Sascha Hauer
2013-02-01  1:11           ` Peter Chen
2013-02-01  6:58             ` Sascha Hauer
2013-02-01 12:21               ` Peter Chen
2013-01-29 13:44 ` kishon
2013-01-29 13:53   ` Wolfram Sang
2013-01-29 14:10     ` kishon [this message]
2013-01-29 14:33       ` Felipe Balbi
2013-01-29 14:55         ` Wolfram Sang
2013-01-29 15:05           ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-01-30 19:33         ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-30 19:35           ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-29 17:10   ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-29 20:30   ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-30  5:51     ` kishon
2013-01-30 10:11       ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-30 10:31         ` kishon
2013-01-29 17:11 ` [PATCH, RFC] " Stephen Warren
2013-01-29 17:16   ` Marc Kleine-Budde

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5107D84F.80401@ti.com \
    --to=kishon@ti$(echo .)com \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists$(echo .)infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox