[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx51-babbage: Fix ULPI PHY reset modelling

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 05:47:18 PST 2015


On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> For the record:
> I'm not happy with this patch. It still abuses the regulator API for
> something completely unrelated and this may well break again in the
> future. But given that it fixes an actual regression and you already
> sent a pull including this I'm okay to keep it.
>
> We still need a proper fix to handle ULPI resets to get rid of this
> hackery.

Actually the ULPI PHY reset is properly handled now. What is missing
is the USB Hub reset to be properly handled.

According to the USB maintainer, Alan Stern, a proper solution has not
come up yet:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg97483.html

When a proper USB hub reset solution shows up, we can certainly use
it, but for now let's have USB host functional by using the regulator
API hack.



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