Re: usb: host: Faraday fotg210-hcd driver

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 03 2013 - 17:40:17 EST


On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:23:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > > +config USB_FOTG210_HCD
> > > > + tristate "FOTG210 HCD support"
> > > > + depends on USB
> > > > + default N
> > > > + ---help---
> > > > + Faraday FOTG210 is an OTG controller which can be configured as
> > > > + an USB2.0 host. It is designed to meet USB2.0 EHCI specification
> > > > + with minor modification.
> > > > +
> > > > + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> > > > + module will be called fotg210-hcd.
> > > > +
> > >
> > > Shouldn't this depend on USB_OTG ?
> > > Seems odd to have OTG related options presented to me when I have that unset.
> >
> > It's a USB Host controller, so it should be built if you have that
> > option set. The fact that it can do OTG isn't an issue here, from what
> > I can tell.
>
> Ok. It still likely needs a 'depends on $ARCH (arm?) | COMPILE_TEST' though.

Probably, yes.

> PS: What happened with this driver ?
>
> This patch landed twice in your tree, once in 1dd3d123239179fad5de5dc00a6e0014a1918fde from Yuan-Hsin Chen <yhchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> and then in 7d50195f6c5005d6ae7a789d9a7f0a94d104ee96 from Feng-Hsin Chiang <john453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Given the former address seems to be broken, perhaps all those mentions of it
> in the faraday sources need updating ?

I thought they had all been fixed up. The first version was dropped
because the maintainer no longer worked for the company (as you found
out), so I needed a new developer to step up and support it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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