Re: [PATCH 2/5 v6] usb: Add usb_endpoint_descriptor to be part of the struct usb_ep

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>]

* Felipe Balbi | 2011-03-28 11:46:25 [+0300]:

>> Could you please share you concerns? Even if they are not strong arguments
>> :).
>> Our pros for this change were that it seems more accurate that the EP
>> descriptor will be handled by the composite layer and not the FDs. Thus we
>> tried to spare the FD from saving the chosen EP descriptor and passing it to
>> different functions.
>> This change is needed for our algorithm of SS implementation in the later
>> patches in this series. 
>
>Yes, I understood that much, but it's useful for UDCs to access the EP
>descriptor (ok, we can still access it by dereferencing ep) since we can
>(actually we need to) use that to let the HW know about max packet
>sizes, endpoint types, etc etc.
>
>Also, I'm not sure composite.c should know the details about the
>endpoint. That's just a thin layer implementing the more generic part
>(standard usb requests, handling, helpers for finding endpoints, etc),
>but the one who should look into endpoint descriptors is the underlying
>controller code for the reasons I listed above.
>
>That's my feeling...

If I look at the diffstat between patch 2 and 4 I see 
| 30 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 393 deletions(-)

So she got rid of almost 100 lines. While looking at the code it seems
that every gadget driver does the same thing which is now done in one
place. I like that so far :)

Sebastian
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