linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/16] usb: musb: dsps: rename ti81xx_driver_data to am33xx_driver

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Message-ID: <20130725153655.GA31835@radagast>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:37:15 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
CC:	Bin Liu <binmlist@...il.com>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <balbi@...com>,
	<george.cherian@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] usb: musb: dsps: rename ti81xx_driver_data to
 am33xx_driver_data

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:53PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 05:12 PM, Bin Liu wrote:
> > Sebastian,
> 
> Hi Bin,
> 
> >> Is it really there or was it never there and it has been added to TRM by
> >> accident?
> > The EOI register IS in the USB subsystem of AM33xx, but the SoC does
> > not use it because it uses level triggering for USB interrupt.
> 
> I see.
> 
> >>> But I am not sure if it is a good idea to remove eoi from the musb_dsps
> >>> driver. If the intension is to merge the support for other SoC, such as
> >>> AM35xx, AM18xx, then EOI handling might be still needed. I just don't know
> >>> how those devices use EOI.
> >>
> >> If one of the architectures gets added which need an EOI then the offset
> >> can be 0 and the EOI will happen only if it is != 0.
> > This patch cleaned up the use of EOI. Do you mean EOI handling will be
> > added back with condition EOI offset != 0, when the support of new
> > device which uses EIO is added?
> 
> That is my intention.

right, I agree. If there are no users for the code, just delete it. If,
eventually, some platform comes to need it, then we add it *after* the
platform's base code is merged.

-- 
balbi

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