[PATCH] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:31:15PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> The PHY framework provides a set of API's for the PHY drivers to
> create/destroy a PHY and API's for the PHY users to obtain a reference to the
> PHY with or without using phandle. To obtain a reference to the PHY without
> using phandle, the platform specfic intialization code (say from board file)
> should have already called phy_bind with the binding information. The binding
> information consists of phy's device name, phy user device name and an index.
> The index is used when the same phy user binds to mulitple phys.
> 
> PHY drivers should create the PHY by passing phy_descriptor that has
> describes the PHY (label, type etc..) and ops like init, exit, suspend, resume,
> poweron, shutdown.

Do you have an example driver that uses this new framework?

How does it look in sysfs?  You need to add Documentation/ABI/ entries
for the sysfs files you created as well.

greg k-h