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From: liulongfang <liulongfang@huawei.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <mathias.nyman@intel.com>,
	<linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] USB:XHCI:Modify XHCI driver for USB2.0 controller
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:38:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <acfdf816-e295-df1d-4039-784fb0d417c4@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210226163004.GB1392547@rowland.harvard.edu>

On 2021/2/27 0:30, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 04:21:37PM +0800, Longfang Liu wrote:
>> Our current XHCI hardware controller has been customized to only
>> support USB 2.0 ports. When using the current xhci driver, an xhci
>> controller device and an ehci controller device will be created
>> automatically.
> 
> That sentence makes no sense at all.  An EHCI controller device is a 
> piece of hardware.  How can an xHCI driver, which is a piece of 
> software, create a piece of hardware?
> 
> Alan Stern
> .
> 
The hardware device is a complete USB3.0 controller,
but I hope to support a USB2.0-only mode through software configuration.
Thanks.
Longfang Liu

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-27  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-26  8:21 [RFC PATCH] USB:XHCI:Modify XHCI driver for USB2.0 controller Longfang Liu
2021-02-26  8:38 ` Greg KH
2021-02-27  3:31   ` liulongfang
2021-03-04  1:35     ` Peter Chen
2021-03-04  4:08       ` liulongfang
2021-02-26  9:22 ` Mathias Nyman
2021-02-27  3:34   ` liulongfang
2021-02-26 16:30 ` Alan Stern
2021-02-27  3:38   ` liulongfang [this message]
2021-02-27  3:48     ` liulongfang
2021-02-27 16:27     ` Alan Stern
2021-03-01  1:58       ` liulongfang

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