linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] Revert "usb: phy: tegra: don't call into tegra-ehci directly"

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1305101024470.1313-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 May 2013 10:26:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>
cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	<balbi@...com>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] Revert "usb: phy: tegra: don't call into
 tegra-ehci directly"

On Fri, 10 May 2013, Venu Byravarasu wrote:

> This reverts commit ee5d5499edb94cd03738a52a7e234b139da8fd72.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>
> ---
> As PHY is being registered as separate driver, solution proposed with
> this patch cannot work anymore.
> Hence pushed patch 10 of this series to address the issue.

You can't just revert a change like this -- doing so will recreate the 
original problem that ee5d5499ed was meant to fix.

You have to fix the problem _first_.  Then you can revert that commit.

Alan Stern

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