linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 6/9] usb: xhci: Add NVIDIA Tegra XHCI host-controller driver

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:08:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
cc:	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
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	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 6/9] usb: xhci: Add NVIDIA Tegra XHCI host-controller
 driver

On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Andrew Bresticker wrote:

> > I think at the very least you should add a function
> > "xhci_default_driver(struct hc_driver *driver)" to xhci-plat.c (or
> > even better to xhci.c and use it for PCI as well) that initializes all
> > function pointers to the default (internal) symbols, and can then be
> > overridden afterwards.
> 
> Currently all XHCI host drivers (PCI, platform, MVEBU) will be built
> into the xhci-hcd module.  I could append the Tegra driver to that
> module or introduce a xhci_init_driver() like EHCI does as Julius
> suggests.  USB folks, do you have a preference?

As the EHCI maintainer, I naturally approve of Julius's suggestion.  

Alan Stern

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