[PATCH v2 1/2] USB: chipidea: add imx usbmisc support

Felipe Balbi balbi at ti.com
Mon Jul 23 06:51:55 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:30:18AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 11:27 AM, Richard Zhao wrote:
> >> This patch looks like a recipe for disaster IMHO, but it's Alex's call.
> > Well, if there's any better place to hold it, I'd like to move there.
> > Another place is arch/arm/mach-imx. Sascha/Shawn who are maintainers of
> > imx are also in cc list.
> 
> IMHO it's not about the place where the driver is located, it's about
> the shortcomings Michael and Sascha mentioned.

exactly. It's not about where a file is placed or how it's called. It's
how you decided to implement it. This will prevent a platform with
multiple instances of the IP to be used, at least.

Also, if that set of registers are shared, you ought to have a dedicated
driver to handle mutual exclusion and so on. I don't know details about
the i.MX platform, that really smells funny by looking at it.

-- 
balbi
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