Re: [PATCH 06/20] usb: hcd-pci: introduce pm-ops for platform-pci devs

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On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:46:05AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> > > In this case, all we have to do is export a single symbol:  
> > > ehci_hc_driver.  Then ehci-tegra can copy that into a private structure
> > > and overwrite whatever fields it wants.  Very simple, no extra tests or
> > > redirections needed.  The other ehci-<arch> drivers can use
> > > ehci_hc_driver directly when they call usb_create_hcd().
> > 
> > Because archs which don't need to do anything, still need to copy
> > ehci_hc_driver and pass that back to ehci-hcd.c.
> 
> They don't need to copy anything.  They just pass a pointer to 
> ehci_hc_driver to whatever needs it -- either usb_create_hcd() or some 
> routine in ehci-hcd.c.
> 
> > My suggestion is so that archs which are "fully compliant", will just
> > not initialize platform_data.
> 
> But even then, you complicate ehci-hcd by making it check for an 
> override every time one of its methods is called.  It's better for 
> non-"fully-compliant" archs to use an hc_driver structure that already 
> contains the necessary method pointers.

Ok, I agree with you here.

-- 
balbi

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