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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 04:54:45PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 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>

Thanks, now applied.

greg k-h