linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

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Date:	Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:37:43 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	andy.green@...aro.org
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Linux USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 23:22 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> 
> Is there actually a need for sort of not platform_data but universal 
> vid_pid_specific_usb_device_option_data coming from the board
> definition 
> file or bootloader for *pluggable* usb devices?  udev seems to be
> well 
> established doing that already in a generic, not-platform-specific
> way 
> that can go in all distros and so on nicely.  Maybe this is just my 
> impoverished imagination and people do want, say, some kinds of USB
> mice 
> to operate at higher DPI or whatever when plugged in a specific board 
> because it is that board. 

Except that vid/pid are the -WRONG- way to do that. Your device is
on-board, the proper way to identify it uniquely is it's topological
location, ie path of HW port numbers.

Cheers,
Ben.


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