Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:22:13 +0200 | From | Alexander Holler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: ehci-omap: Select USB_PHY |
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Am 11.04.2013 20:29, schrieb Felipe Balbi:
> and who said OMAP USB depends on CONFIG_USB_PHY ? Some platforms need to > control a PHY and some don't.
I've read that so.
> Go check out kernel 2.6.39 (maybe even 3.1 and 3.2) and you'll see that > we're much better off today where we can actually have multiple PHY > drivers and multiple UDC drivers enabled (either as modules or > built-in), but the fact is that changing all of this over takes time and > sometimes people make mistakes, but that's alright, since we have the > -rc series to catch those unwanted errors.
I'll still have to stick to 3.2 because nothing afterwards boots from EHCI on my beagleboard.
> > Without the help of the rest of the community, though, it'll just get > slower and slower. With the whole single zImage effort going on in the > ARM land, things have gotten much more critical WRT getting rid of > "selects" and turning legacy "drivers" into real drivers, not just a > bunch of exported functions which a single architecture uses. > > Add to that all the rework going on in the Gadget Framework, PHY layer > and EHCI drivers (which now has a core re-usable library thanks to Alan > Stern) and you have a lot of work to do. > > Next time you consider ranting about something, use that 'frustration' > and turn it into motivation to write patches, then we all win. Also
I frequently tried and gave up. But thanks for the good suggestions.
Regards,
Alexander
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