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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1108221325290.2192-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:28:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Michal Nazarewicz <mnazarewicz@...gle.com>
cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Yang Rui Rui <ruirui.r.yang@...to.com>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/4] usb: Provide usb_speed_string() function

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:

> From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
> 
> In a few places in the kernel, the code prints
> a human-readable USB device speed (eg. "high speed").
> This involves a switch statement sometimes wrapped
> around in ({ ... }) block leading to code repetition.
> 
> To mitigate this issue, this commit introduces
> usb_speed_string() function, which returns
> a human-readable name of provided speed.
> 
> It also changes a few places switch was used to use
> this new function.  This changes a bit the way the
> speed is printed in few instances at the same time
> standardising it.

> --- a/drivers/usb/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/usb/Makefile
> @@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_USB_MUSB_HDRC)	+= musb/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_RENESAS_USBHS)	+= renesas_usbhs/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_OTG_UTILS)	+= otg/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET)	+= gadget/
> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_USB)		+= common.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET)	+= common.o

Will this cause problems?  For example, what if CONFIG_USB is Y and 
CONFIG_USB_GADGET is M?

Also, it seems a little silly to have an entire kernel module devoted 
to a single, little function.  This is a symptom of the difficulty of 
sharing code between the host-side and gadget-side USB stacks.

Alan Stern

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