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From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
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 10:10:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5108028D.5030605@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5107D253.5030400@ti.com>

On 01/29/2013 06:44 AM, kishon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 29 January 2013 04:52 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> From: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@pengutronix•de>
>>
>> This adds two little devicetree helper functions for determining the
>> dr_mode (host, peripheral, otg) and phy_type (utmi, ulpi,...) from
>> the devicetree.

>> +/**
>> + * of_get_usbphy_mode - Get phy mode for given device_node
>> + * @np:    Pointer to the given device_node
>> + *
>> + * The function gets phy interface string from property 'phy_type',
>> + * and returns the correspondig enum usb_phy_interface
>> + */
>> +enum usb_phy_interface of_usb_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np)
>> +{
>> +    const char *phy_type;
>> +    int err, i;
>> +
>> +    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).

Well, this DT property is already defined an in-use, so while a
different decision might (or might not) be made today about the property
name/content, it's already defined and widely in use, so can't really be
changed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 17:10 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
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 [this message]
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

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