linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: mux-intel-usb: Add Intel USB Multiplexer driver

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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 19:20:35 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        "Krogerus, Heikki" <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy Natarajan <sathyaosid@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: mux-intel-usb: Add Intel USB Multiplexer driver

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 3:47 AM,
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
>
> In some Intel SOCs, a single USB port is shared between USB device and

SoCs

> host controller and an internal mux is used to control the selection of
> port by host/device controllers. This driver adds support for the USB
> internal mux, and all consumers of this mux can use interfaces provided
> by mux subsytem to control the state of the internal mux.

> +config MUX_INTEL_USB
> +       tristate "Intel USB Mux"

It's indeed Intel's IP? I would rather believe that it is some 3rd
party known IP block with platform specific soldering.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko