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From: javier.martinez@collabora•co.uk (Javier Martinez Canillas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable usb3503
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:38:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <556FF260.5060006@collabora.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7hsia846wa.fsf@deeprootsystems.com>

Hello Kevin,

On 06/04/2015 03:08 AM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> riku.voipio at linaro.org writes:
> 
>> From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro•org>
>>
>> CONFIG_USB_HSIC_USB3503 is needed by exynos5250-arndale for the on-board
>> asix network controller. Enable it so networking works with
>> multi_v7_defconfig out of box like it does with exynos_defconfig.
>>
>> USB3503 is also referenced from exynos4412-odroidu3.dts and
>> exynos5250-spring.dts so this patch should improve
>> multi_v7_defconfig on those platforms as well.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro•org>
> 
> Tyler pointed me to this in order to get arndale networking on mainline,
> but looks like this might need to be revisited for current mainline.  
> 
> I tested this and it doesn't work because as of commit 7de7c6717f2c
> (ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Exynos USB PHY) the PHY that this
> depends on is built as a module in multi_v7_config, so having this
> driver built-in doesn't help.  Even after the PHY driver is loaded, this
> driver will not detect the hardware.
> 
> So instead, I think this driver should be built as a module as well.
> Testing that, I can get networking by doing loading both the phy and
> this driver after boot:
> 
>  # modprobe phy-exynos-usb2
>  # modprobe usb3503
>

Current policy is to have as much as possible built as a module
in multi_v7_config so regardless of your issue I think that the
patch should be re-spun to change this.

But I wonder why is not working, shouldn't the driver defer and
be probed again once the PHY driver probe succeeds?

> Kevin
> 

Best regards,
Javier

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-13 13:54 [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable usb3503 riku.voipio at linaro.org
2015-06-04  1:08 ` Kevin Hilman
2015-06-04  6:38   ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2015-06-04 17:47     ` Kevin Hilman
2015-06-05 12:45       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-14  8:35         ` Riku Voipio
2015-09-15  6:50           ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-09-15  8:17             ` Sjoerd Simons
2015-09-15  8:34               ` Krzysztof Kozlowski

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