RE: [PATCH 3/8][v2]usb:fsl:otg: Add support to add/remove usb host driver

From: Ramneek Mehresh
Date: Mon Aug 10 2015 - 11:36:08 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Stern [mailto:stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 8:14 PM
> To: Mehresh Ramneek-B31383
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; balbi@xxxxxx;
> gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Li Yang-Leo-R58472
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/8][v2]usb:fsl:otg: Add support to add/remove usb
> host driver
>
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Ramneek Mehresh wrote:
>
> > > Also, what is the reason for calling usb_hcd_resume_root_hub()? It
> won't
> > > do anything, because it will run before the scheduled work, so there
> won't
> > > be a root hub for it to resume.
> > >
> > Well, you're right...it's not a surety that usb_hcd_resume_root_hub() will
> run after
> > scheduled work...i'll move it inside do_change_hcd() after usb_add_hcd().
> Thanks.
>
> You're missing the point. There's no reason ever to call
> usb_hcd_resume_root_hub() immediately after usb_add_hcd(). The hub
> driver does everything necessary when the root hub is registered.
> Resuming it (if it is suspended at that point) won't accomplish
> anything because all the important work has just been done.
>
> Now, if you _weren't_ calling usb_add_hcd() (for example if host.is_otg
> were 0) then it might make sense to call usb_hcd_resume_root_hub() --
> although I don't see why you would need to.
>
> Alan Stern
Understood...let me check this once again. Thanks.

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