Re: [PATCH] phy: core: document calibrate() method

From: Marek Szyprowski
Date: Mon Jul 22 2019 - 12:50:55 EST


Hi Kishon,

On 2019-07-19 14:25, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> On 19/07/19 5:51 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> On 2019-07-19 12:04, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>> On 19/07/19 3:22 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>> Commit 36914111e682 ("drivers: phy: add calibrate method") added support
>>>> for generic phy_calibrate() method, but it didn't explain in detail when
>>>> such method is supposed to be called. Add some more documentation directly
>>>> to the phy.h to make it clean that it is intended to be called after every
>>>> host controller reset.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> include/linux/phy/phy.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/phy/phy.h b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
>>>> index 15032f145063..46775e8b0ed9 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/phy/phy.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
>>>> @@ -101,6 +101,18 @@ struct phy_ops {
>>>> int (*validate)(struct phy *phy, enum phy_mode mode, int submode,
>>>> union phy_configure_opts *opts);
>>>> int (*reset)(struct phy *phy);
>>>> +
>>>> + /**
>>>> + * @calibrate:
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Optional.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Used to calibrate phy, typically by adjusting some parameters
>>>> + * in runtime, which are otherwise lost after host controller
>>>> + * reset and cannot be set in phy_init() and phy_power_on().
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Returns: 0 if successful, an negative error code otherwise
>>>> + */
>>>> int (*calibrate)(struct phy *phy);
>>> This should be added in drivers/phy/phy-core.c before phy_calibrate()?
>> Okay. Do you want to keep it also in phy.h (like for validate and
>> configure)?
> No. Adding in phy.txt and before phy_calibrate() should suffice IMO.

OKay, I will move it to phy.c. Generic PHYs documentation is converted
to RST (Documentation/driver-api/phy/phy.rst), so it could simply
include those comments from .c file. This can be done in separate patch.

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland