[PATCH v3 4/7] USB: EHCI: export ehci_shutdown
Alan Stern
stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Fri Mar 29 15:56:58 EDT 2013
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ehci_shutdown function is used by the platform specific ehci backends
> for at91, tegra and ps3. In order to turn any of these into separate
> modules, we need to make this function globally visible and export it.
Actually, I think this is not necessary. Instead those three glue
files ought to be changed. They should not need to call
ehci_shutdown() directly.
The references to ehci_shutdown() in ehci-atmel.c and ehci-ps3.c seem
totally unnecesary. That routine does a hard shutdown -- but the calls
are immediately followed by usb_remove_hcd(), which calls ehci_stop(),
which does an orderly shutdown followed by a reset. While it certainly
would be good to check with the authors of these drivers, it would be
surprising if removing those calls led to any trouble.
The reference in ehci-tegra.c is there only so that
tegra_ehci_shutdown() can call tegra_ehci_power_up() before doing its
real work. Instead, tegra_ehci_power_up() should be called by
tegra_ehci_hcd_shutdown(). Then there would be no need to have the
tegra_ehci_shutdown() routine at all.
Alan Stern
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