Re: [PATCH] limit power budget on spitz

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 13:08:25 EST


On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:22:50AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:02 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > + if (machine_is_spitz()) {
> > > > + /* Warning, not coming from any official docs. But
> > > > + * spitz is unable to properly power wireless card
> > > > + * claiming 500mA -- usb interface work but wireless
> > > > + * does not. */
> > > > + hcd->power_budget = 250;
> > > > + }
> > >
> > >
> > > Should this value not be specified by the platform in the platform data
> > > rather than a set of machine_is_xxx statements in the driver itself? I
> > > already put most of the infrastructure for that into place.
> >
> > Well, it has quite few users now, and this is how it works in
> > ohci-omap. Yes, if we get more of such hooks, it probably needs to be
> > moved to platform data...
>
> Just because the omap does it that way, doesn't mean it can't be done
> better ;-). I've also just realised the above doesn't account for akita
> or borzoi. Since the hardware is identical in this area, the same
> changes should be applied for those machines. If we use the platform
> device/data approach, we don't have this problem as they all use the
> same platform device :)

So what do folk want me to do? Blindly merge the patch (hint: it's still
in the incoming queue...)

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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