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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Non-enumerable devices on USB and other enumerable buses
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:01:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819160130.GD30073@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVPFqHLQRpd0QBzoVapqHtKqrfGvWT0_nhXeFqjQVRsp5Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:17:53PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> > Aong those lines, I would like to point out that the device concept
> > embodied in the kernel's data structures can be pretty thin.  For
> > example, it might be little more than a port number or bus address.

> Maybe the principle behind drivers/usb/core/usb-acpi.c is helpful
> for the problem, and DT may refer to ACPI to describe on-board
> USB devices, and the way to retrieve platform data too.

I can't parse this at all well - why would DT want to refer to ACPI, do
you mean people may wish to look at the code as an example?  As Grant
noted DT already has some mechanisms for enumerable buses which looking
at the code appears to be broadly what that's doing.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-19 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-11 19:08 Non-enumerable devices on USB and other enumerable buses Mark Brown
2013-08-11 22:08 ` Grant Likely
2013-08-12 14:41   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-12  1:53 ` Alan Stern
2013-08-12  9:51   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-12 11:07     ` Mark Rutland
2013-08-12 11:32       ` Mark Brown
2013-08-12 18:08       ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-12 20:38         ` Mark Brown
2013-08-12  2:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-12 11:23   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-12 20:50     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-12 21:40       ` Mark Brown
2013-08-13  1:04         ` Alan Stern
2013-08-14 11:38           ` Mark Brown
2013-08-14 14:27             ` Alan Stern
2013-08-14 15:39               ` Mark Brown
2013-08-14 16:14                 ` Alan Stern
2013-08-14 16:30                   ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-14 18:49                     ` Mark Brown
2013-08-14 17:30                   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-14 18:35                     ` Alan Stern
2013-08-14 18:46                       ` Mark Brown
2013-08-14 19:39                         ` Alan Stern
2013-08-14 20:16                           ` Paul Zimmerman
2013-08-14 23:59                             ` Mark Brown
2013-08-14 23:55                           ` Mark Brown
2013-08-15 14:42                             ` Alan Stern
2013-08-15 17:10                               ` Mark Brown
2013-08-15 17:55                                 ` Alan Stern
2013-08-15 19:32                                   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-15 20:42                                     ` Alan Stern
2013-08-15 22:54                                       ` Mark Brown
2013-08-16 14:42                                         ` Alan Stern
2013-08-16 18:39                                           ` Mark Brown
2013-08-16 19:27                                             ` Alan Stern
2013-08-16 20:00                                               ` Mark Brown
2013-08-16 20:39                                                 ` Alan Stern
2013-08-16 22:46                                                   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-17  1:29                                                     ` Alan Stern
2013-08-19 12:17                                                       ` Ming Lei
2013-08-19 16:01                                                         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-08-20 13:19                                                           ` Ming Lei
2013-08-20 15:02                                                             ` Mark Brown

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