linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] USB: EHCI: make ehci-w90X900 a separate driver

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1307231450340.1304-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:53:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Manjunath Goudar <manjunath.goudar@...aro.org>
cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<patches@...aro.org>, <arnd@...aro.org>,
	<linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@...il.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] USB: EHCI: make ehci-w90X900 a separate driver

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Manjunath Goudar wrote:

> Separate the W90X900(W90P910) on-chip host controller driver from
> ehci-hcd host code so that it can be built as a separate driver module.
> This work is part of enabling multi-platform kernels on ARM;
> however, note that other changes are still needed before W90X900(W90P910)
> can be booted with a multi-platform kernel
> 
> and an ehci driver that only works on one of them.
> 
> With the infrastructure added by Alan Stern in patch 3e0232039
> "USB: EHCI: prepare to make ehci-hcd a library module", we can
> avoid this problem by turning a bus glue into a separate
> module, as we do here for the w90X900 bus glue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manjunath Goudar <manjunath.goudar@...aro.org>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> 
> V2:
>  -Arranged  #include's in alphabetical order.
>  -Replaced "w90p910" by "w90x900" because it is supports
>   all series of w90x900.

> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@...il.com>");
> -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("w90p910 usb ehci driver!");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_ALIAS("platform:w90p910-ehci");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

Are you sure the license is supposed to be changed?  Is that okay with 
Wan ZongShun?

Alan Stern

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