On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 15 March 2013, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Roger just submitted my patch to split out ehci-omap.
>
> Ok, if we can merge that for 3.9, the main issue will be resolved, because
> an OMAP+Orion config is much more interesting in practice than adding
> VT8500 to the mix.
I don't know if the patch will get into 3.9. That's up to Greg; IIRC
Roger did not ask for it.
> An alternative for VT8500 would be to remove drivers/usb/host/ehci-vt8500.c
> completely and use the generic ehci-platform.c bus glue with added DT
> support, as the patch below that I just hacked up. Not sure if that
> anyone would prefer that over the hot-fix for 3.9, but it's possibly
> a better solution in the long run.
Getting rid of driver files is always worthwhile.
> @@ -89,12 +90,17 @@ static int ehci_platform_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> return -ENXIO;
> }
>
> - if (pdata->power_on) {
> + if (pdata && pdata->power_on) {
> err = pdata->power_on(dev);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
> }
Instead of adding these tests for non-NULL pdata all over the place,
you could define a static structure with default settings and store a
pointer to it if pdata wasn't set initially.
Alan Stern
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