Re: [RFC 0/1] Platform driver support for 'amd5536udc' driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jan 05 2017 - 17:04:23 EST


On Thursday, January 5, 2017 1:53:16 PM CET Raviteja Garimella wrote:
> The UDC is based on Synopsys Designware core USB (2.0) Device controller
> IP.
...
> This is a request for comments from maintainers/others regarding approach
> on whether to have 2 different drivers (one each for AMD and Broadcom)
> with a common library (3 files in total), or have a single driver like
> it's done in this patch and have the driver filename changed to some
> common name based on ther underlying IP, like snps_udc.c.

I have not looked at the code at all, so sorry for my ignorance, but
isn't the IP block you describe the one that drivers/usb/dwc2/ is for?
Could you add support for the Broadcom hardware there instead?

Arnd