Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:19:27 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] add xhci hooks for USB offload |
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 05:32:58PM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote: > On 20.1.2021 12.04, Howard Yen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:47 PM Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 19.1.2021 12.10, Howard Yen wrote: > >>> To let the xhci driver support USB offload, add hooks for vendor to have > >>> customized behavior for the initialization, memory allocation, irq work, and > >>> device context synchronization. Detail is in each patch commit message. > >> > >> Is this related to the usb audio sideband capability that was added to the xHCI specification? > >> If yes, then we should probably implement the generic parts first, and then add > >> the vendor specific hooks. > >> > >> -Mathias > >> > >> > > > > This is for offloading, no matter what type of offloading. > > I made the hooks generically and can be used for usb audio on the xhci > > which is not including the usb audio sideband capability. > > > > Ok, before adding hooks like this I think we need to see how they are used. > Do you have the rest of the patches that go on top of this series? > > Maybe it could make sense to use overrides for the functions in struct hc_driver > instead in some cases? There is support for that already.
What overrides could be done for these changes? At first glance that would seem to require a lot of duplicated code in whatever override happens to be needed.
thanks,
greg k-h
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