Re: [PATCH v2 03/18] usb: host: xhci-plat: Add support for the Armada 38x

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Dear Arnd Bergmann,

On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:01:51 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> I think you're doing it the wrong way around: You have a specialized
> version of the generic xhci-plat driver. The normal way to handle this
> is to have a loadable module that contains all the Armada specific
> code and that registers a platform_driver. In the probe() function of
> that driver, you can do the platform specific setup and then call
> the generic xhci_plat_probe() function, which of course has to
> be provided using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

You should have a look at the v1 Gregory sent: it was implementing
exactly what you suggest here, but Felipe explicitly requested the
patches to be changed like is now proposed in v2.

Thomas
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