Re: Suggestions in supporting a second instance of the Host controller driver

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On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Chiranjeevi Velempati wrote:

>   Hi,
> 
> What is the best approach to support a second instance of Host 
> controller driver, is it better to have a separate file or do it in the 
> same file? If it a seperate file, there will be lot of duplicate code 
> for PHY reset, LPM code and if it is the same file, debugging will be 
> tough, because, it will be the three instances in the same file 
> including the second instance, which I need to support.
> 
> My second instance of the host controller driver is independent of the 
> OTG driver, where as the first instance of the Host controller is 
> tightly coupled with OTG driver. For the first instance of the Host 
> controller driver, starting and stopping the Host, Suspending and 
> resuming the host is done by OTG.
> 
> Moreover, already we are supporting two instance of the Host controller 
> driver in the same file and differentiating between these two using the 
> PHY TYPE, because one host is connected to internal PHY and the other is 
> connected to serial PHY?
> 
> 
> Any help in this regard is highly appreciated?

You can use separate source files, and consolidate the common code into 
a single file.

Alan Stern

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