linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 6/7] usb: pci-quirks: add Intel USB drcfg mux device

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2016 21:45:18 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	felipe.balbi@...ux.intel.com,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 6/7] usb: pci-quirks: add Intel USB drcfg mux device

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:37:28AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> In some Intel platforms, a single usb port is shared between USB host
> and device controllers. The shared port is under control of a switch
> which is defined in the Intel vendor defined extended capability for
> xHCI.
> 
> This patch adds the support to detect and create the platform device
> for the port mux switch.

Why do you need a platform device for this?  You do nothing with this
device, why create it at all?

And why is it a platform device, isn't is really a PCI device?  Why
would you ever find a "platform" device below a PCI device?  Don't abuse
platform devices for things that aren't.  It makes me want to delete
that whole interface more and more...

greg k-h