[PATCH 2/2] ehci-platform: Change compatible string from usb-ehci to ehci-platform

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed Feb 12 09:56:13 EST 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:26:16PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > I'm even OK with removing "usb-ehci" and "usb-ohci" compatibles
> > from all OMAP dts files since they aren't really compatible with
> > the original PPC driver.
> 
> I don't think that is necessary, as your grep has shown there are a
> lot of dts files using compatible = "foo", "usb-?hci"; and some may
> even have the dts in firmware, so we should simply make sure not to
> break such dts.

For these devices, we can't do much, but at least for the DT that are
in Linux, relying on the fact that there is no driver having a
compatible of "usb-ehci" to work looks very fragile. I'd be in favour
of removing it from the OMAP DTs, and every affected DTs.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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