Hi Linus, On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 4:28 PM Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:44 PM Martin Blumenstingl > <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > > As noted on the earlier patches I think this should be folded into the > > > existing XHCI USB driver in drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c or, if that > > > gets messy, as a separate bolt-on, something like > > > xhci-pci-gpio.[c|h] in the drivers/usb/host/* directory. > > > You can use a Kconfig symbol for the GPIO portions or not. > > OK, I will do that if there are no objections from other developers > > I am intending to place the relevant code in xhci-pci-etron.c, similar > > to what we already have with xhci-pci-renesas.c > I tried this and unfortunately there's a catch. > the nice thing about having a separate GPIO driver means that the > xhci-pci driver doesn't need to know about it. > > I implemented xhci-pci-etron.c and gave it a Kconfig option. > xhci-pci is then calling into xhci-pci-etron (through some > etron_xhci_pci_probe function). > unfortunately this means that xhci-pci now depends on xhci-pci-etron. > for xhci-pci-renesas this is fine (I think) because that part of the > code is needed to get the xHCI controller going > but for xhci-pci-etron this is a different story: the GPIO controller > is entirely optional and only used on few devices > > my goal is (at some point in the future) to have the GPIO driver in OpenWrt. > I am not sure if they would accept a patch where xhci-pci would then > pull in the dependencies for that Etron controller, even though most > boards don't need it. > > Please let me know if you have any idea on how to solve this. next week I have some free time to work on this I am still interested in any ideas that you have about this Best regards, Martin