[PATCH v6 1/3] USB: chipidea: add imx usbmisc support

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:50:08AM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Richard Zhao <richard.zhao at freescale.com> writes:
> 
> > i.MX usb controllers shares non-core registers, which may include
> > SoC specific controls. We take it as a usbmisc device and usbmisc
> > driver set operations needed by ci13xxx_imx driver.
> >
> > For example, Sabrelite board has bad over-current design, we can
> > usbmisc to disable over-current detect.
> 
> Why does this have to be part of the usb driver instead of SoC specific
> code? It looks like you've created a whole new device/driver
> infrastructure just to disable overcurrent for a specific board.

Richards code indeed only handles overcurrent for a specific board, but
there are more bits to configure in the longer run: power pin
polarities, ULPI/serial mode select and some more.

> 
> And the infrastructure boils down to a complex way of passing a callback
> from imx driver to another imx driver, that only works if they are
> probed in the right order. I don't see any point in doing it like this
> other than inflating the device tree tables even further.
> 
> Why can't this be part of the SoC code like it is done, for example in
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/control.c?

The settings are board specific, so there must be some way to configure
them in the devicetree.

Sascha

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