linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5 v13] arm: omap: usb: ehci and ohci hwmod structures for omap4

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Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:12:16 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Munegowda, Keshava" <keshava_mgowda@...com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, khilman@...com, b-cousson@...com,
	gadiyar@...com, sameo@...ux.intel.com, parthab@...ia.ti.com,
	tony@...mide.com, johnstul@...ibm.com, vishwanath.bs@...com,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5 v13] arm: omap: usb: ehci and ohci hwmod structures
 for omap4

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:52:05PM -0600, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> Hi Felipe
> 
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> > maybe, but let's go with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). My only concern is that
> > this IP comes from synopsys, and I'm not really keen on adding
> > OMAP-specific, integration-related knowledge on a driver which was
> > supposed to be reusable ;-)
> >
> > But at least for the time being, I guess that's what we need to do ;-)
> 
> Which IP is coming from Synopsys - the TLL ?  The EXPORT_SYMBOL approach 

TLL and UHH are OMAP-only wrappers. EHCI and OHCI are Synopsys IPs for
all I know.

> shouldn't add anything OMAP-specific to the TLL driver.  So the exported 
> symbols should still be usable by drivers on other SoCs.  But perhaps I am 
> misunderstanding your point?

A bit :-)

EHCI/OHCI will need to ask TLL to enable TLL clock, because it's
EHCI/OHCI who configure the port. Unless I misunderstood what Keshava
did (and no, I didn't just read the code, too lazy :-)

-- 
balbi

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