Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Documentation: devicetree: update bindings for tps23861

[Robert Marko]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:29 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Robert Marko wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:02 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 04:37:36PM +0200, Andreas Böhler wrote:
> > > > The tps23861 driver does not initialize the chip and relies on it being
> > > > in auto-mode by default. On some devices, these controllers default to
> > > > OFF-Mode and hence cannot be used at all.
> > > >
> > > > This brings minimal support for initializing the controller in a user-
> > > > defined mode.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Böhler <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > nack for the series, sorry. The suggested properties are not hardware
> > > monitoring but phy properties. There should be a separate phy driver
> > > to manage those.
> > >
> > > Also, as mentioned, the hwmon 'enable' attribute is abused to control
> > > port functionality and should be removed.
> >
> > Hi Guenter,
> > Are you referring to an ethernet PHY driver or the generic PHY framework?
> >
>
> Could be both, though ethernet phy sounds about right for me.
> I don't know where/how similar chips are handled. hwmon is most definitey
> the wrong place.

Hi,

Well, that is the thing, this is definitively not an ethernet PHY nor
a PHY of any other kind.
I dont see where it would fit if not hwmon, there is no more specific
subsystem in the
kernel.

Regards,
Robert

>
> Guenter



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