On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Hans de Goede wrote: > The initial versions of the devicetree enablement patches for ohci-platform > used "ohci-platform" as compatible string. However this was disliked by various > reviewers because the platform bus is a Linux invention and devicetree is > supposed to be OS agnostic. After much discussion I gave up and went with > the generic usb-ohci as requested. > > In retro-spect I should have chosen something different, the dts files for many > existing boards already claim to be compatible with "usb-ohci", ie they have: > > compatible = "ti,ohci-omap3", "usb-ohci"; > > In theory this should not be a problem since the "ti,ohci-omap3" entry takes > presedence, but in practice using a conflicting compatible string is an issue, > because it makes which driver gets used depend on driver registration order. > > This patch changes the compatible string claimed by ohci-platform to > "generic-ohci", avoiding the driver registration / module loading ordering > problems. > > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> For both v2 patches: Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
