Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757975Ab3FTRZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:25:34 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:55210 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757339Ab3FTRZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:25:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:25:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Felipe Balbi cc: Chao Xie , Roger Quadros , Chao Xie , Greg KH , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] USB: initialize or shutdown PHY when add or remove host controller In-Reply-To: <20130620121749.GF9817@arwen.pp.htv.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1547 Lines: 39 On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > In fact, the PHY setting and handling is related to platform or SOC, > > and for different SOC they can > > have same EHCI HCD but they PHY handling can be different. > > Omap'a case is the example, and i think some other vendors may have > > silimar cases. > > From above point, It is better to leave the PHY initialization and > > shutdown to be done by each echi-xxx driver. > > > > So Alan and Felipe > > What are your ideas about it? > > If we have so many exceptions, then sure. But eventually, the common > case should be added generically with a flag so that non-generic cases > (like OMAP) can request to handle the PHY by themselves. > > Alan ? I don't have very strong feelings about this; Felipe has much more experience with these things. However, when the common case is added into the core, the simplest way to indicate that the HCD wants to handle the PHY(s) by itself will be to leave hcd->phy set to NULL or an ERR_PTR value. One important thing that hasn't been pointed out yet: When we move these calls into the core, the same patch must also remove those calls from the glue drivers that currently do set hcd->phy. And it must make sure that the glue drivers which handle the PHY by themselves do not set hcd->phy. Alan Stern -- 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/