Re: [PATCH 1/2] EHCI : introduce a common ehci_setup

From: Alan Stern
Date: Mon Jul 04 2011 - 11:47:52 EST


On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, matthieu castet wrote:

> > Instead of putting this routine in ehci-hcd.c, where it will silently
> > use up unnecessary codespace on thousands or millions of desktop
> > systems, why not put it into a new separate source file? Then the
> > SOC drivers can #include that file.
> Ok if you prefer that.
> But if we allow someday to built more than one
> SOC driver at a time (this will come for distribution doing generic arm
> kernel or case like [1]). How it will work ?

Good point.

> Also because the function is static, the compiler will remove
> it, if it is not used. So it won't use extra codespace on desktop.

Ah, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for pointing it out. Okay, you
can add my Acked-by to this patch.

Alan Stern

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