Re: [PATCH 0/5] usb: musb: am335x support

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Hi,

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On 03.04.2013 14:04, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:00:23PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 
> >> Felipe, could you explain the background on how the dsps driver is
> >> supposed to work in host mode at boot time with the rework of the driver
> >> you did for 3.7? It might just be me not understanding the rationale
> >> behind all these changes, but appearantly, I'm not the only one who's
> >> affected by that.
> > 
> > right, so the idea with that was to drop the huge amount of ifdeferry
> > hack from the MUSB driver. It would be great if someone would send
> > *CLEAN* patches adding Kconfig-based role choices again.
> 
> Are Kconfig-based rules really what we want here after all? Wouldn't
> run-time configured settings make much more sense, considering that

we need both. Say that you want to build a product with MUSB hardwired
as host, why would you enable gadget framework ?

I can think of at least am335x where this would be perfectly plausible
(no EHCI available, only MUSB).

> people might want to run a single kernel image on multiple platforms? I
> believe it should be up to the DT to define the actual hardware wiring.

Right, for runtime decision Ravi pointed me to a patch implementing that
(Ravi, could you post it by any chance as RFC ?) which we could start a
discussion and hopefully merge for v3.11

-- 
balbi

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