Re: [RFC PATCH] usb, PCI: split quirk for usb host controller tothree

From: Sarah Sharp
Date: Thu Mar 01 2012 - 14:04:24 EST


On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:24:35AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:17:07AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > so we avoid checking class again and again in that quirk.
> >
> > need to be applied after pci/linux-next and usb/usb-next
>
> As those are two independant trees, this needs to wait until after
> 3.4-rc1 is out.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> Is this really helping anything here? You added code overall :(

I agree with Greg. Why change this? Does it shave off any boot time?
Please show hard numbers for what improvements this makes. I really
don't want to change PCI init and break people's systems.

Sarah Sharp
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