Re: [PATCH 15/30] usb/musb: use a Kconfig choice to pick the right DMA method

Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-02T19:44:26Z

On Sunday 02 October 2011 21:56:09 Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, even with the dma parts out of the way there is
> > a lot that needs to be done to make musb, ehci or ohci
> > really cross-platform. Right now, you can only have one
> > platform driver glue for each of those drivers, and they
>
> that's not true for musb. I can already compile am35x and omap2430
> together. TUSB is a different story though. With a small effort, we
> could also allow DaVinci and the like to compile cleanly and work.

Ok, good.

> > should eventually be converted to a large library module for
> > the core, with independent platform driver front-end, similar
>
> that's how MUSB works now and that's what I have been discussing with
> Alan Stern for the past month or so, wrt to *HCI. There are even patches
> floating on linux-usb right now trying to hash out the problems.

Ah, glad to see that is happening. I can probably get rid of a bunch
of randconfig patches I have for those then.

> Maybe you should have consulted the maintainers of those drivers before
> making such statements.
>
> MUSB is not the best example because of its history. I understand the
> DMA part is still really messy, but we have been working very hard to
> hash the problems and still allow new glue layers to be merged.

Sorry if I have made my statement sound like an accusation, it wasn't
meant as one, merely as a sigh at having identified yet another area
that needs to be changed in order to have cross-platform ARM kernels
working in every case.

> How about taking a sneak pick at what the code does right now ? As of
> today, I can even even have all UDC controller drivers into one kernel
> and I generally compile x86 with all controllers available. There's some
> very small work that has to be done on each of the UDC drivers to remove
> any references to <arch/..> <asm/..> and <plat/..> headers but that work
> in in progress.

I didn't really see any problems with UDC at all. What I saw were a lot
of build problems with the musb host side, and I rewrote this patch half
a dozen times before I ended up with a version that consistently built
without making the code look worse.

I also agree that the musb implementation is less of a problem than
ohci/ehci in its current form, as it already is layered in the right
way. I did not attempt to turn the Kconfig 'choice' statement there
into a flat list though, so I wouldn't know what problems to expect.

Arnd
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