[U-Boot] Doubt in USB driver for Vybrid vf610

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 05:23:05 PM, maitysanchayan at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 15-10-24 12:09:43, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > Hi Marek,
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > >> Any inputs on the below?
> > > 
> > > I don't have a Vybrid device, CCing Fabio.
> > 
> > I don't have access to a Vybrid board either.
> > 
> > Sanchayan,
> > 
> > Does drivers/usb/host/ehci-mx6.c behave the same way?
> 
> No.
> 
> I included the particular piece of code below
> 
> 
> 	if (init == USB_INIT_DEVICE && index == 1)
> 		return -ENODEV;
> 	if (init == USB_INIT_HOST && index == 0)
> 		return -ENODEV;
> 
> in the ehci-vf driver because our requirement was to have one port
> as client and other as host. Since on USB start both ports get configured
> as host as it iterates depending on USB EHCI controller count, the above
> was meant to stop the port required as client to be configured as host and
> vice versa while using client functionality such as DFU.
> 
> I made the mistake of not thinking that this is not a generic use case,
> someone might want it the other way around or such.
>
> So coming to the main question, what would be the correct way to fix this?
> I tested that even if the above four lines are removed and USB start
> configures both ports as host, calling dfu later will still result in
> correct functioning. So is this ok and the four lines should be nuked or a
> more appropriate way would be to add something like
> board_ehci_hcd_init_with_type(int index, enum usb_init _type init) which
> would be a weak function and have the board specific code call this to do
> the above which is currently done in ehci-vf.
> 
> I wasn't sure about the right approach to take so I asked.

Brief glare over the driver tells me that those four lines are complete nonsense
and should be removed.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut