Re: [PATCH 2/9] scripts/modpost: add a exception for USB gadget drivers

[ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:35:07PM +0530, ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
>> <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The "driver" struct for a gadget driver is named *_driver. On module
>> > load, the gadget expects a UDC driver to be loaded and avaiable. If this
>> > is not the case => -ENODEV and bye bye. That means that the gadget
>> Will this be taken care of in your future series (with configfs?).
>> There might be cases when your gadget driver gets loaded before the
>> UDC driver.
>
> with configfs that won't be a problem because even though function
> drivers are loaded, they won't bind to any controller until we tell them
> to through configfs. IOW, functions will only bind to UDCs after we
> assign them to a particular usb interface through configfs.

Ok. Makes sense..

Thanks
Kishon
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