[PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable USB3503 driver

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Thu Sep 28 05:22:03 PDT 2017


On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Linus Lüssing
<linus.luessing at c0d3.blue> wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply!
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 08:21:26AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> [...]
>> Anyway please define this as a module (unless it can't... but it
>> worked in my case).
>
> In that case you used an initrd, right? I see various cases of USB
> built-ins, like CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y, CONFIG_USB_DWC2=y and so on in
> multi_v7_defconfig. So my impression was that multi_v7_defconfig was
> supposed to allow booting a rootfs from a USB storage device even
> without an initrd.

We use modules for multi_v7 as much as possible with that exception as
fair as I remember - no need of initramfs/initrd for boots. If this is
your intention, please mention this in commit message ("using usb3503
as builtin to provide boot from USB without initrd/initramfs").

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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