linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/15] USB: ehci: make orion and mxc bus glues coexist

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1301211533580.24224-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:35:54 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:	balbi@...com, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <arm@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Manjunath Goudar <manjunath.goudar@...aro.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] USB: ehci: make orion and mxc bus glues coexist

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Monday 21 January 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > Manjunath Goudar is already working on a patch to convert
> > > both the imx and the mvebu glue drivers (along with all
> > > the other ARM specific ones) to the new probing method,
> > > but that will be too late to fix v3.8. This patch instead
> > > adds yet another hack like the existing ones to allow
> > > the ehci driver to load both back-ends.
> > 
> > NAK, should be converted to the new usage of ehci library driver. Alan
> > Stern already implemented for a few drivers, help is very welcome.
> 
> As I explained above, Manjunath already has a patch [1] for that, but I
> think it's too late to include that in v3.8 given the regression
> potential and size of the patch. Once he submits that patch for 3.9,
> my change would get taken out anyway, but it lets us build important
> configurations (including allyesconfig build tests) on 3.8.
> 
> 	Arnd
> 
> [1] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/manjunathgoudar/usb-refactoring.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9f28dba727212d022605c955796a3a83b3978ae

Is Manjunath aware of the first patch attached to this email message?

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135843902916416&w=2

Alan Stern

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