Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752666Ab3DLAWp (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:22:45 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:58240 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752244Ab3DLAWm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:22:42 -0400 Message-ID: <516753B5.2040002@ahsoftware.de> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:22:13 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: balbi@ti.com CC: Roger Quadros , Greg KH , Alan Stern , Linux USB Mailing List , Kernel development list , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: ehci-omap: Select USB_PHY References: <5166856C.3080906@ti.com> <20130411100435.GB14394@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <516695A4.2050804@ti.com> <20130411105557.GE14394@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <5166AFD2.4070108@ti.com> <5166B450.1000404@ahsoftware.de> <5166CC30.4060507@ti.com> <5166F3EC.8040807@ahsoftware.de> <20130411182946.GA20264@arwen.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <20130411182946.GA20264@arwen.pp.htv.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1697 Lines: 42 Am 11.04.2013 20:29, schrieb Felipe Balbi: > and who said OMAP USB depends on CONFIG_USB_PHY ? Some platforms need to > control a PHY and some don't. I've read that so. > Go check out kernel 2.6.39 (maybe even 3.1 and 3.2) and you'll see that > we're much better off today where we can actually have multiple PHY > drivers and multiple UDC drivers enabled (either as modules or > built-in), but the fact is that changing all of this over takes time and > sometimes people make mistakes, but that's alright, since we have the > -rc series to catch those unwanted errors. I'll still have to stick to 3.2 because nothing afterwards boots from EHCI on my beagleboard. > > Without the help of the rest of the community, though, it'll just get > slower and slower. With the whole single zImage effort going on in the > ARM land, things have gotten much more critical WRT getting rid of > "selects" and turning legacy "drivers" into real drivers, not just a > bunch of exported functions which a single architecture uses. > > Add to that all the rework going on in the Gadget Framework, PHY layer > and EHCI drivers (which now has a core re-usable library thanks to Alan > Stern) and you have a lot of work to do. > > Next time you consider ranting about something, use that 'frustration' > and turn it into motivation to write patches, then we all win. Also I frequently tried and gave up. But thanks for the good suggestions. Regards, Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/