linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/12] xhci: Add Intel extended cap / otg phy mux handling

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:32:28 +0200
From:   Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] xhci: Add Intel extended cap / otg phy mux handling

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:47:47AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> The xHCI controller on various Intel SoCs has an extended cap mmio-range
> which contains registers to control the muxing to the xHCI (host mode)
> or the dwc3 (device mode) and vbus-detection for the otg usb-phy.
> 
> Having a role-sw driver included in the xhci code (under drivers/usb/host)
> is not desirable. So this commit adds a simple handler for this extended
> capability, which creates a platform device with the caps mmio region as
> resource, this allows us to write a separate platform role-sw driver for
> the role-switch.
> 
> Note this commit adds a call to the new xhci_ext_cap_init() function
> to xhci_pci_probe(), it is added here because xhci_ext_cap_init() must
> be called only once. If in the future we also want to handle ext-caps
> on non pci xHCI HCDs from xhci_ext_cap_init() a call to it should also
> be added to other bus probe paths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>


Thanks,

-- 
heikki