Re: [PATCH 7/7] USB: UHCI: Add support for GRLIB GRUSBHC controller

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On Thu, 5 May 2011, Jan Andersson wrote:

> > Something else to think about...  The uhci_grlib_reset_hc() and
> > uhci_grlib_check_and_reset_hc() routines are all generic -- there's
> > nothing specific to the GRUSBHC about them.  They could go into
> > uhci-hcd.c.
> > 
> > The reason they aren't there now is because they are part of the BIOS
> > handoff needed by the early PCI code, even before uhci-hcd might be
> > loaded.  Therefore a copy had to go into pci-quirks.c, and there was
> > no reason to duplicate it in uhci-hcd.c.
> > 
> > Since you don't have to worry about taking control from the firmware,
> > the routines don't need to be coded separately for each platform.  You
> > can put a generic version in uhci-hcd.c, and if the build is PCI-only
> > then the generic routine can simply call the pci-quirks code.
> > 
> 
> Thank you. I will create generic functions in uhci-hcd.c instead.
> 
> I assumed that the pci_write_config_word()s in uhci_*reset_hc would be
> needed in the case where GRUSBHC was used and there also was another
> UCHI controller connected via PCI in the system. After looking at the
> spec I suppose that it will work, as you say, without the writes to the
> legacy support register.

Unless somebody decides to run a non-PCI-UHCI-enabled kernel in an x86 
PC.  Maybe to be safe it would be best to rule out that combination in 
the Kconfig: make USB_UHCI_SUPPORT_NON_PCI_HC depend on (USB_UHCI_HCD 
&& !X86).  Would this be acceptable?

Alan Stern

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