Re: [PATCH v2] usb: host: tegra: make use of PHY pointer of HCD

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Thu Jan 24 2013 - 11:00:43 EST


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:28:32PM +0530, BVG Rao wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:57:03PM +0530, Venu Byravarasu wrote:
> >> As pointer to PHY structure can be stored in struct usb_hcd
> >> making use of it, to call Tegra PHY APIs.
> >>
> >> Call to usb_phy_shutdown() is moved up in tegra_ehci_remove(),
> >> so that to avoid dereferencing of hcd after its freed up.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> First version of patch can be found at
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135581479020213&w=2. As it was not
> >> yet applied, sending v2 of the patch.
> >>
> >> delta from v1:
> >> Modified all Tegra PHY APIs to use standard 'structu usb_phy *' as
> >> their parameter instead of proprietary parameter of type 'struct tegra_usb_phy *'.
> >
> > I would like to see those tegra-specific functions vanish from the
> > driver. Can that be done for v3.10 merge window ?
>
> Deleting these functions may not be possible because of the way,
> Tegra20 USB PHY and controllers are designed.
> Hence I'm trying to remove tegra specific structure pointers as
> function parameter
> and use generic USB PHY structure pointers instead.

yes, you need to use generic function pointers, that's what I meant.

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balbi

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