linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: add Freescale QE/CPM USB peripheral controller driver

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:53:49 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net,
	greg@...ah.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: add Freescale QE/CPM USB peripheral controller driver

Alan Stern wrote:
> This was done deliberately.  The relevant standards state that a USB
> device can have no more than one peripheral interface.

Does building a kernel image that can run on different hardware without 
rebuilding also violate the "relevant standards"?

And who's to say that there aren't multiple USB devices on a single 
board, that just happen to share a CPU and memory? :-)

-Scott
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