linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: USB_FOTG210 should depend on ARCH

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2022 09:00:46 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Fabian Vogt <fabian@...ter-vogt.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: USB_FOTG210 should depend on ARCH_GEMINI

Hi Linus,

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:24 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:22 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:
> > The Faraday Technology FOTG210 USB2 Dual Role Controller is only present
> > on Cortina Systems Gemini SoCs.
>
> As it turns out, this is not true. The TI nSpire uses this too, I should have
> noted since the nSpire maintainer was patching the driver...
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20210324141115.9384-1-fabian@ritter-vogt.de/
>
> Shall we revert it or just add another clause for the nSpire?

Oh, but the integration is not (yet) upstream, as I didn't find any
"faraday,fotg210" outside gemini.dtsi.

I guess another clause would be the most-userfriendly solution.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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