Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: xhci: rename ambiguous named XHCI_NEC_HOST toXHCI_NEC_SHOW_FW

[Alexander Holler]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:16:34AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 30.05.2013 00:25, schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> > 
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:14:32PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> >> Current Renesas Electronics XHCI hosts (which were formerly NEC)
> >> do support the same vendor command to show the firmware. Rename the
> >> ambigious named define XHCI_NEC_HOST to XHCI_NEC_SHOW_FW because it's
> >> only used to display the firmware version. Besides that, change the
> >> output "... NEC firmware version x.y" to "... firmware version x.y"
> >> to not confuse owners of Renesas USB hosts.
> >>
> >> (so only cosmetic, no functional changes)
> > 
> > I'm actually inclined to say you should just rip out the firmware
> > version code entirely.  I haven't needed to use it for years, and if
> > Renesas changed their vendor command set, I would rather not submit
> > random commands to the host.
> > 
> > So, can you redo this patch to just rip out XHCI_NEC_HOST and everything
> > that uses it?
> 
> Hmm, I find the firmware version rather informational and would even
> display it unconditionally (instead of with xhci_debug). It prevents the
> need to boot Windows to checkout if the latest version is installed,
> especially if someone is hunting a bug.

Below is the patch I'm using locally on top of the two previous patches.
Feel free to use/submit/merge it too.

Regards,

Alexander Holler