linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] add xhci hooks for USB offload

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Message-ID: <af91bbf1-6731-3e87-4086-de0dbba22c22@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:49:31 +0200
From:   Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>
To:     Howard Yen <howardyen@...gle.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        robh+dt@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add xhci hooks for USB offload

On 19.1.2021 12.10, Howard Yen wrote:
> To let the xhci driver support USB offload, add hooks for vendor to have
> customized behavior for the initialization, memory allocation, irq work, and 
> device context synchronization. Detail is in each patch commit message.

Is this related to the usb audio sideband capability that was added to the xHCI specification?
If yes, then we should probably implement the generic parts first, and then add
the vendor specific hooks.

-Mathias