Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Intel xhci: rework EHCI/xHCI port switching

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 07:11:22PM +0300, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This is a proposal for simplifying the EHCI/xHCI portswitching
> 
> It's a lot simpler than before. There's now only one funtion for enabling xhci ports,
> and we only once walk through pci devices to find Intel EHCI and xHCI controllers
> 
> In pci-quirks we set a flag if both intel xHCI and EHCI controllers are found,
> and then call the usb_enable_intel_xhci_ports() function.
> EHCI and xHCI resume functions call the same usb_enable_intel_xhci_ports(), without
> walking the pci devices.
> 
> On the downside this uses global variables, one xhci pointer and one
> boolean flag.

Ok, maybe I've had too much coffee this morning, but I don't see any new
global variables being added in your patch.  I see a static one (the
intel structure), but nothing "global".  What am I missing?

> The xhci pointer is set only once in pci-quirk and it's assumed that xHCI device is not removed,
> so there's a possibility this pointer can go stale. 
> Also we can only handle one Intel xHCI host in the system.

All of this should be in the 1/1 patch description as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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