From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] USB: add generic onboard USB HUB driver Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:20:27 +0800 Message-ID: <20160106032027.GA23726@shlinux2> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Rob Herring Cc: Alan Stern , Mark Rutland , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Fabio Estevam , Pawel Moll , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Mathieu Poirier , Linux USB List , patryk-6+2coLtxvIyvnle+31E0rA@public.gmane.org, Felipe Balbi , Peter Chen , "kernel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org" , Philipp Zabel , Shawn Guo , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:36:31AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > 2. There are MFD USB devices, which includes several interfaces under > > USB device, > > like i2c, gpios, etc. Due to lack of device tree support, USB > > class/device driver doesn't know > > which kinds of interfaces are needed for this board. > > Are you talking about a device hard wired on the same board or > something like GPIOs on FTDI chip which could be hot-plugged in any > host (including non-DT based)? I talked about the case that the device hard wired on the board. Hot-plug device's bus topology is unknown, we can't describe it statically at dts. > > For the hotplug case, we will need a way to associate a DT overlay > with the USB device and there may not even be a base DT to map the > overlay into. In this case, the USB device's driver will need to load > the overlay and trigger enumerating the child devices. Anyway, this is > a separate issue from your problem. > Since both you and Alan agree with my problem should be fixed at bootloader, I give the kernel solution up. The another thing I open to discuss is how to let USB devices know its device node, the user reported issue that they can't handle interfaces below in USB device since that. -- Best Regards, Peter Chen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html