On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:20 AM Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This driver enables USB OHCI on Broadcom ARM and MIPS STB SoCs.
> The drivers depend on a matching "brcm,brcmstb-usb-phy"
> Broadcom STB USB Phy driver.
>
> The standard platform driver can't be used because of differences
> in PHY and Clock handling. The standard PHY handling in hcd.c will
> do a phy_exit/phy_init on suspend/resume and this will end up
> shutting down the PHYs to the point that the host controller
> registers are no longer accessible and will cause suspend to crash.
> The clocks specified in device tree for these drivers are not
> available in mainline so instead of returning EPROBE_DEFER when
> the specified clock is not found and eventually failing probe,
> the clock pointer is set to NULL which disables all clock handling.
Both of these sound like fairly minor differences, I wonder if the
generic code could be adapted to have a special case for these
rather than duplicating it.
Arnd
