Re: USB host pci-quirks

[Oskar Senft]

Dear Aleksey,

thank you for your e-mail!

>>Is there a special need, that the "drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c" is
>>compiled into the kernel even if USB support is disabled?
> 
>   Yes, there is. USB handoff is necessary even if USB support is
> disabled completely in kernel. In fact, initially early usb handoff code
> was under pci, but since USB drivers do handoff anyway, it was decided
> to move everything into usb with a goal of merging them together. 
>   Just search for USB handoff in kernel archives.

I see ... but as David Brownell already stated on Thu Sep 02 2004 -
20:07:57 EST:
For backwards compatibility, the early reset should not be the
default. There aren't many systems where it's a problem.

What happened to that argument?

Regards,
Oskar.
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