Re: [PATCH] usb host: Faraday FUSBH200 HCD driver.

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 14:23:47 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:16:56AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > it would cause copious modification and duplication of ehci hcd
> > > driver. For example, there is no "configured_flag" register in
> > > fusbh200 controller, yet, ehci hcd driver accesses "configured_flag"
> > > in function ehci_run which would cause compile errors. Therefore,
> > > maybe my first patch which refers to oxu210hp-hcd is a better
> > > solution?
> >
> > why don't you just add a quirk flag to ehci struct so that it knows it
> > shouldn't access CONFIGFLAG register when that's non-existent ?
> >
> > There are only 5 uses of configured_flag in ehci-hcd.c, so it should be
> > easy to wrap that around a flag check.
>
> Two of those uses turn configured_flag on and two of them turn it off.
> However, one of the uses tests its value (the first one in
> ehci_resume). How would that be handled if configured_flag doesn't
> exist?

perhaps they don't use it because they have a root-hub TT ? In that case
you assume EHCI *always* owns the port. Would that work ?

--
balbi

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