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From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: xhci: rename ambiguous named XHCI_NEC_HOST to XHCI_NEC_SHOW_FW
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 06:16:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A6D2A2.30302@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130529222500.GC7151@xanatos>

Am 30.05.2013 00:25, schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:14:32PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
>> Current Renesas Electronics XHCI hosts (which were formerly NEC)
>> do support the same vendor command to show the firmware. Rename the
>> ambigious named define XHCI_NEC_HOST to XHCI_NEC_SHOW_FW because it's
>> only used to display the firmware version. Besides that, change the
>> output "... NEC firmware version x.y" to "... firmware version x.y"
>> to not confuse owners of Renesas USB hosts.
>>
>> (so only cosmetic, no functional changes)
> 
> I'm actually inclined to say you should just rip out the firmware
> version code entirely.  I haven't needed to use it for years, and if
> Renesas changed their vendor command set, I would rather not submit
> random commands to the host.
> 
> So, can you redo this patch to just rip out XHCI_NEC_HOST and everything
> that uses it?

Hmm, I find the firmware version rather informational and would even
display it unconditionally (instead of with xhci_debug). It prevents the
need to boot Windows to checkout if the latest version is installed,
especially if someone is hunting a bug.

I just dont't like the name, because e.g. in my case, it made me to have
a deeper look at what that quirk does, because I had the hope it might
solve a problem. Therefor I think it's useful to rename it.

Regards,

Alexander Holler


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-30  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-29 21:14 [PATCH 1/2] USB: xhci: rename ambiguous named XHCI_NEC_HOST to XHCI_NEC_SHOW_FW Alexander Holler
2013-05-29 21:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] USB: xhci: show firmware version for Renesas XHCI hosts if debug is enabled Alexander Holler
2013-05-29 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] USB: xhci: rename ambiguous named XHCI_NEC_HOST to XHCI_NEC_SHOW_FW Sarah Sharp
2013-05-30  4:16   ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2013-05-30 17:46     ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-30 18:20     ` Sarah Sharp
2013-05-31  0:20       ` Alexander Holler

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