[PATCH/RFC 0/3] Allow OHCI drivers to override hub control operations

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> > I'm open to the idea of exporting the hub functions. In the end, it doesn't
> > make all that much difference (it would save a little object code).
> 
> I would have agreed to keep the code as it is today if you had thought that 
> exporting the hub functions was a really bad idea, but as you're open to it, 
> and as it removes a bit of code without much of a drawback, I think it makes 
> sense to perform that optimization.

Agreed.  We aren't really _encouraging_ people to do this, because it 
still takes some manual work to override the default operation.

> By the way, as a second step, do you think it would make sense to handle the 
> vbus regulators directly in ohci_hub_control() ?

I don't see any good way of doing this generically.  Since it is
currently needed only for PXA27x, we don't know what other
architectures will require in the future.

Alan Stern