Re: [PATCH 13/15] USB: ehci: make orion and mxc bus glues coexist

Alan Stern
2013-01-21T20:35:57Z

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Monday 21 January 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > Manjunath Goudar is already working on a patch to convert
> > > both the imx and the mvebu glue drivers (along with all
> > > the other ARM specific ones) to the new probing method,
> > > but that will be too late to fix v3.8. This patch instead
> > > adds yet another hack like the existing ones to allow
> > > the ehci driver to load both back-ends.
> >
> > NAK, should be converted to the new usage of ehci library driver. Alan
> > Stern already implemented for a few drivers, help is very welcome.
>
> As I explained above, Manjunath already has a patch [1] for that, but I
> think it's too late to include that in v3.8 given the regression
> potential and size of the patch. Once he submits that patch for 3.9,
> my change would get taken out anyway, but it lets us build important
> configurations (including allyesconfig build tests) on 3.8.
>
> Arnd
>
> [1] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/manjunathgoudar/usb-refactoring.git;a=commitdiff;h=d9f28dba727212d022605c955796a3a83b3978ae

Is Manjunath aware of the first patch attached to this email message?

http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135843902916416&w=2

Alan Stern