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@ 2014-02-11 14:10 Hans de Goede
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  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Hans de Goede @ 2014-02-11 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: Roger Quadros, Alan Stern, Tony Prisk, Florian Fainelli,
	Maxime Ripard, linux-usb, linux-sunxi-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw,
	linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r, devicetree

Hi Greg,

Can you please add these 2 patches to usb-next, to unbreak usb on various
ARM platforms?

These 2 patches can either be squashed into the first 2 patches of my previous
set or added as is to preserve history, either way is fine with me.

The 2nd patch also fixes one of the Kconfig issues and I've a better plan
for the 2nd Kconfig issue too, so please consider this a self-nack for my
drivers/usb/host/Kconfig patches.

Here is a copy of the echi-platform commit-msg to explain the rationale of
these changes, as well as how the breakage happened in the first place:

The initial versions of the devicetree enablement patches for ehci-platform
used "ehci-platform" as compatible string. However this was disliked by various
reviewers because the platform bus is a Linux invention and devicetree is
supposed to be OS agnostic. After much discussion I gave up, added a:
"depends on !PPC_OF" to Kconfig to avoid a known conflict with PPC-OF platforms
and went with the generic usb-ehci as requested.

In retro-spect I should have stuck to my guns, because the dts files for many
existing boards already claim to be compatible with "usb-ehci", ie they have:

	compatible = "ti,ehci-omap", "usb-ehci";

In theory this should not be a problem since the "ti,ehci-omap" entry takes
presedence, but in practice using a conflicting compatible string is an issue,
because it makes which driver gets used depend on driver registration order.

This patch changes the compatible string claimed by ehci-platform (back) to
"ehci-platform", avoiding the driver registration / module loading ordering
problems, and removes the "depends on !PPC_OF" workaround.

Note that there already is a precedent for using ?hci-platform, in the form
of xhci-platform.c using "xhci-platfrom" as compatible string.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans

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2014-02-11 15:21           ` Hans de Goede
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2014-02-11 15:34               ` Kumar Gala
2014-02-11 14:10   ` [PATCH 2/2] ehci-platform: Change compatible string from usb-ehci to ehci-platform Hans de Goede
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2014-02-11 15:00       ` Roger Quadros
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2014-02-11 15:26           ` Hans de Goede
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2014-02-12 14:56               ` Maxime Ripard
2014-02-11 15:27   ` ohci-/ehci-platform: Change compatible string to ?hci-platform Alan Stern
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2014-02-11 15:43       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-11 15:54         ` Hans de Goede
2014-02-11 17:01         ` Florian Fainelli
2014-02-11 17:04           ` Hans de Goede

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