[RFC PATCH 09/19] powerpc: gamecube/wii: udbg support for usbgecko

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 27 10:12:05 EST 2009


> The usbgecko is hotplugable and hotswappable.
> But as this is mostly a developer feature, not normaly used by end  
> users, I think that we can just let it be as it is: autodetect it  
> on boot (now probing for it instead of using information from the  
> device tree).
> If you unplug it later it causes no errors, you just miss whatever  
> data is sent to it.

You can get interrupts when an EXI device is plugged or unplugged; the
"normal" driver should use that.  But you haven't posted that yet.

The "early debug" driver can just assume the user doesn't like to hurt
himself, and provide pain when the user does, there's no problem with
that :-)


Segher



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