From: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru•mvista.com>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell•net>,
linux-usb-devel@lists•sourceforge.net, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 1/2] USB: Rework OHCI PPC OF for new bindings
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:13:55 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4720DCE3.4090502@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4720DD18.9000603@genesi-usa.com>
Matt Sealey wrote:
> Valentine,
>
> Please do the very minimal required to keep supporting the Efika.
>
> As for an little endian OHCI controller on an OF bus, I would not
> consider it an impossibility. But, not having the big-endian
> property fixes this; OHCI is little-endian by default. You need
> only report "difference" in device trees, overzealous naming of
> a billion kinds of 99.99999% compatible controllers is just a
> waste of space.
>
> I prefer the new binding to a degree. I like the big-endian property
> and I like the reporting of a standard controller type (usb-ohci
> rather than building in chip names). However by making the driver
> support only the recommending binding, we break old platforms for
> the sake of making new ones cleaner.
>
> I wish someone would have sat down and defined the 5200 device
> tree in a design committee rather than a peer review post-commit
> system. In fact, that is a great idea, we can start this off with
> the MPC5121E right now, and get the damn thing RIGHT.
>
OK, I'll submit a new patch in a bit.
Thanks,
Valentine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 16:22 [PATCH 0/2] USB: Rework OHCI PPC OF driver to support new bindings Valentine Barshak
2007-10-24 16:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] USB: Rework OHCI PPC OF for " Valentine Barshak
2007-10-24 22:05 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-25 1:50 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2007-10-25 2:41 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-25 11:48 ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-25 14:21 ` Grant Likely
2007-10-25 17:11 ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-25 18:14 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-25 18:13 ` Valentine Barshak [this message]
2007-10-25 18:10 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-25 18:01 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-25 18:50 ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-25 22:02 ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-26 11:24 ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-26 12:13 ` Valentine Barshak
2007-11-01 11:19 ` tnt
2007-11-01 12:44 ` Valentine Barshak
2007-11-01 13:46 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Dale Farnsworth
2007-10-24 16:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] PowerPC: Update USB OHCI DTS entires " Valentine Barshak
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