Re: [PATCH 0/3] Revert "usb: phy: add usb phy notify port status API"

[Vinod Koul]

On 06-11-23, 12:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 12:06:51PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > The recently added Realtek PHY drivers depend on the new port status
> > notification mechanism which was built on the deprecated USB PHY
> > implementation and devicetree binding.
> > 
> > Specifically, using these PHYs would require describing the very same
> > PHY using both the generic "phy" property and the deprecated "usb-phy"
> > property which is clearly wrong.
> > 
> > We should not be building new functionality on top of the legacy USB PHY
> > implementation even if it is currently stuck in some kind of
> > transitional limbo.
> > 
> > Revert the new Realtek PHY drivers for now so that the port status
> > notification interface can be reverted and replaced before we dig
> > ourselves into an even deeper hole with this PHY mess.
> > 
> > Note that there are no upstream users of these PHYs and the drivers were
> > only included in 6.6 so there should still be time to undo this.
> 
> No users of these phy drivers yet?  Why were they added?

Not sure why, they didnt go thru phy ss!

> 
> > Preferably these should go in through Greg's tree for 6.7-rc1.
> 
> I'll be glad to take this if I can get an ack for it.

Pls do drop this:

Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>

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~Vinod