EHCI_MV confusion was: Re: kirkwood devicetree respin

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:54:53PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > ehci-orion only makes sense on PLAT_ORION, and they never have any
> > > > > other platform ehci driver.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ehci-mv only makese sense on PLAT_PXA, and they  also don't have any
> > > > > other platform ehci driver.
> > > > 
> > > > BTW, as someone who once was the active maintainer for PXA, and later 
> > > > the active maintainer for Orion, I should say that ehci-mv is a terribly 
> > > > bad name (as demonstrated, not all Marvell SOCs use ehci-mv) and 
> > > > confusion would be much reduced if it was renamed to ehci-pxa.

> I think there is still value in the rename.  "mv" is a really bad 
> qualifier for an IP block from a company that has many of them for the 
> same purpose.

Then you should discuss this with the driver's maintainer (CC'ed).

Alan Stern