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+			    PHY SUBSYSTEM
+		  Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
+
+This document explains the Generic PHY Framework along with the APIs provided,
+and how-to-use.
+
+1. Introduction
+
+*PHY* is the abbreviation for physical layer. It is used to connect a device
+to the physical medium e.g., the USB controller has a PHY to provide functions
+such as serialization, de-serialization, encoding, decoding and is responsible
+for obtaining the required data transmission rate. Note that some USB
+controllers have PHY functionality embedded into it and others use an external
+PHY. Other peripherals that use PHY include Wireless LAN, Ethernet,
+SATA etc.
+
+The intention of creating this framework is to bring the PHY drivers spread
+all over the Linux kernel to drivers/phy to increase code re-use and for
+better code maintainability.
+
+This framework will be of use only to devices that use external PHY (PHY
+functionality is not embedded within the controller).
+
+2. Registering/Unregistering the PHY provider
+
+PHY provider refers to an entity that implements one or more PHY instances.
+For the simple case where the PHY provider implements only a single instance of
+the PHY, the framework provides its own implementation of of_xlate in
+of_phy_simple_xlate. If the PHY provider implements multiple instances, it
+should provide its own implementation of of_xlate. of_xlate is used only for
+dt boot case.
+
+#define of_phy_provider_register(dev, xlate)    \
+        __of_phy_provider_register((dev), THIS_MODULE, (xlate))
+
+#define devm_of_phy_provider_register(dev, xlate)       \
+        __devm_of_phy_provider_register((dev), THIS_MODULE, (xlate))
+
+of_phy_provider_register and devm_of_phy_provider_register macros can be used to
+register the phy_provider and it takes device and of_xlate as
+arguments. For the dt boot case, all PHY providers should use one of the above
+2 macros to register the PHY provider.
+
+void devm_of_phy_provider_unregister(struct device *dev,
+	struct phy_provider *phy_provider);
+void of_phy_provider_unregister(struct phy_provider *phy_provider);
+
+devm_of_phy_provider_unregister and of_phy_provider_unregister can be used to
+unregister the PHY.
+
+3. Creating the PHY
+
+The PHY driver should create the PHY in order for other peripheral controllers
+to make use of it. The PHY framework provides 2 APIs to create the PHY.
+
+struct phy *phy_create(struct device *dev, struct device_node *node,
+		       const struct phy_ops *ops);
+struct phy *devm_phy_create(struct device *dev, struct device_node *node,
+			    const struct phy_ops *ops);
+
+The PHY drivers can use one of the above 2 APIs to create the PHY by passing
+the device pointer and phy ops.
+phy_ops is a set of function pointers for performing PHY operations such as
+init, exit, power_on and power_off.
+
+Inorder to dereference the private data (in phy_ops), the phy provider driver
+can use phy_set_drvdata() after creating the PHY and use phy_get_drvdata() in
+phy_ops to get back the private data.
+
+4. Getting a reference to the PHY
+
+Before the controller can make use of the PHY, it has to get a reference to
+it. This framework provides the following APIs to get a reference to the PHY.
+
+struct phy *phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string);
+struct phy *phy_optional_get(struct device *dev, const char *string);
+struct phy *devm_phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string);
+struct phy *devm_phy_optional_get(struct device *dev, const char *string);
+
+phy_get, phy_optional_get, devm_phy_get and devm_phy_optional_get can
+be used to get the PHY. In the case of dt boot, the string arguments
+should contain the phy name as given in the dt data and in the case of
+non-dt boot, it should contain the label of the PHY.  The two
+devm_phy_get associates the device with the PHY using devres on
+successful PHY get. On driver detach, release function is invoked on
+the the devres data and devres data is freed. phy_optional_get and
+devm_phy_optional_get should be used when the phy is optional. These
+two functions will never return -ENODEV, but instead returns NULL when
+the phy cannot be found.
+
+It should be noted that NULL is a valid phy reference. All phy
+consumer calls on the NULL phy become NOPs. That is the release calls,
+the phy_init() and phy_exit() calls, and phy_power_on() and
+phy_power_off() calls are all NOP when applied to a NULL phy. The NULL
+phy is useful in devices for handling optional phy devices.
+
+5. Releasing a reference to the PHY
+
+When the controller no longer needs the PHY, it has to release the reference
+to the PHY it has obtained using the APIs mentioned in the above section. The
+PHY framework provides 2 APIs to release a reference to the PHY.
+
+void phy_put(struct phy *phy);
+void devm_phy_put(struct device *dev, struct phy *phy);
+
+Both these APIs are used to release a reference to the PHY and devm_phy_put
+destroys the devres associated with this PHY.
+
+6. Destroying the PHY
+
+When the driver that created the PHY is unloaded, it should destroy the PHY it
+created using one of the following 2 APIs.
+
+void phy_destroy(struct phy *phy);
+void devm_phy_destroy(struct device *dev, struct phy *phy);
+
+Both these APIs destroy the PHY and devm_phy_destroy destroys the devres
+associated with this PHY.
+
+7. PM Runtime
+
+This subsystem is pm runtime enabled. So while creating the PHY,
+pm_runtime_enable of the phy device created by this subsystem is called and
+while destroying the PHY, pm_runtime_disable is called. Note that the phy
+device created by this subsystem will be a child of the device that calls
+phy_create (PHY provider device).
+
+So pm_runtime_get_sync of the phy_device created by this subsystem will invoke
+pm_runtime_get_sync of PHY provider device because of parent-child relationship.
+It should also be noted that phy_power_on and phy_power_off performs
+phy_pm_runtime_get_sync and phy_pm_runtime_put respectively.
+There are exported APIs like phy_pm_runtime_get, phy_pm_runtime_get_sync,
+phy_pm_runtime_put, phy_pm_runtime_put_sync, phy_pm_runtime_allow and
+phy_pm_runtime_forbid for performing PM operations.
+
+8. PHY Mappings
+
+In order to get reference to a PHY without help from DeviceTree, the framework
+offers lookups which can be compared to clkdev that allow clk structures to be
+bound to devices. A lookup can be made be made during runtime when a handle to
+the struct phy already exists.
+
+The framework offers the following API for registering and unregistering the
+lookups.
+
+int phy_create_lookup(struct phy *phy, const char *con_id, const char *dev_id);
+void phy_remove_lookup(struct phy *phy, const char *con_id, const char *dev_id);
+
+9. DeviceTree Binding
+
+The documentation for PHY dt binding can be found @
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt