Re: [PATCH] Enable USB gadget subsystem outside ARM

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>> > It's generally useful. On other architectures the UDC capable hardware might
>> > not be very common, but the dummy HCD makes it possible to use such hardware
>> > for development and emulation of USB gadget driver code.
>> > ---
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm wondering if you could apply this?
> ...
>> Why are they being put in extras where they were formerly for ARM in
>> the main kernel package? This is functionality for some devices we
>> depend on for things like virtual serial console and usb gadget
>> network and in most cases ARM devices will have one of these ports so
>> they're pretty much standard hardware on ARM.
>
> I thought they're not very commonly used, apparently I was wrong.
> They're definitely not very commonly used on x86 (I don't think there
> even exists a commonly used UDC there, our kernel does not currently
> ship a driver for any), but there does not seem to be a way to put them
> into extras package for a single platform. Maybe that would not be a
> good idea anyway.

Correct, the most common use case on x86 I suspect is the new baytrail
devices that people like AdamW are playing with but I'm not sure what
drivers they need/use.

Peter
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