linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 24/25] MIPS: Alchemy: use the OHCI platform driver

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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:21:37 +0200
From:	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@...il.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	stern@...land.harvard.edu, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@...glemail.com>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/25] MIPS: Alchemy: use the OHCI platform driver

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org> wrote:
> This also greatly simplifies the power_{on,off} callbacks and make them
> work on platform device id instead of checking the OHCI controller base
> address like what was done in ohci-au1xxx.c.

That was by design -- the base address is far more reliable in identifying the
correct controller instance than the platform device id.   There are systems
in the field which don't use the alchemy/common/platform.c file at all.


Manuel
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