Re: [PATCH] phy: Change the configuration interface param to void* to make it more general

[Sakari Ailus]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:21:45AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 05:26:04PM +0800, Zeng Tao wrote:
> > The phy framework now allows runtime configurations, but only limited
> > to mipi now, and it's not reasonable to introduce user specified
> > configurations into the union phy_configure_opts structure. An simple
> > way is to replace with a void *.
> >
> > We have already got some phy drivers which introduce private phy API
> > for runtime configurations, and with this patch, they can switch to
> > the phy_configure as a replace.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I still don't believe this is the right approach, for the reasons
> exposed in my first review of that patch.

I agree.

The very reason for having PHY type specific structs is to allow configuring
the PHY independently of the PHY device. This patch breaks that.

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Regards,

Sakari Ailus
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