linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb host: Faraday FUSBH200 HCD driver.

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Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:23:17 +0200
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Yuan-Hsin Chen <yuanlmm@...il.com>,
	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>,
	<Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yuan-Hsin Chen <yhchen@...aday-tech.com>,
	<john453@...aday-tech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb host: Faraday FUSBH200 HCD driver.

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:16:56AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > it would cause copious modification and duplication of ehci hcd
> > > driver. For example, there is no "configured_flag" register in
> > > fusbh200 controller, yet, ehci hcd driver accesses "configured_flag"
> > > in function ehci_run which would cause compile errors. Therefore,
> > > maybe my first patch which refers to oxu210hp-hcd is a better
> > > solution?
> > 
> > why don't you just add a quirk flag to ehci struct so that it knows it
> > shouldn't access CONFIGFLAG register when that's non-existent ?
> > 
> > There are only 5 uses of configured_flag in ehci-hcd.c, so it should be
> > easy to wrap that around a flag check.
> 
> Two of those uses turn configured_flag on and two of them turn it off.  
> However, one of the uses tests its value (the first one in
> ehci_resume).  How would that be handled if configured_flag doesn't
> exist?

perhaps they don't use it because they have a root-hub TT ? In that case
you assume EHCI *always* owns the port. Would that work ?

-- 
balbi

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