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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 1/5] usb: xhci: Change the XHCI link order in the Makefile
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On 5/13/2020 9:27 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:08:07AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/13/2020 5:26 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:00:15AM -0400, Al Cooper wrote:
>>>> Some BRCMSTB USB chips have an XHCI, EHCI and OHCI controller
>>>> on the same port where XHCI handles 3.0 devices, EHCI handles 2.0
>>>> devices and OHCI handles <2.0 devices. Currently the Makefile
>>>> has XHCI linking at the bottom which will result in the XHIC driver
>>>> initalizing after the EHCI and OHCI drivers and any installed 3.0
>>>> device will be seen as a 2.0 device. Moving the XHCI linking
>>>> above the EHCI and OHCI linking fixes the issue.
>>>
>>> What happens if all of these are modules and they are loaded in a
>>> different order? This makefile change will not help with that, you need
>>> to have logic in the code in order to properly coordinate this type of
>>> mess, sorry.
>>
>> I believe we should be using module soft dependencies to instruct the
>> module loaders to load the modules in the correct order, so something
>> like this would do (not tested) for xhci-plat-hcd.c:
>>
>> MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: ehci-hcd ohci-hcd");
>>
>> and I am not sure whether we need to add the opposite for ehci-hcd and
>> ohci-hcd:
>>
>> MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: xhci-plat-hcd");
>
> That's a nice start, but what happens if that isn't honored? This
> really needs to work properly for any order as you never can guarantee
> module/driver loading order in a system of modules.

I also suggested that device links may help, though I am not sure. What
do you suggest to be done?
--
Florian

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