Re: [PATCH 0/5] usb: common and dwc3: converting to unified device property

From: Peter Chen
Date: Wed Aug 26 2015 - 23:03:21 EST


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:13:22PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:53:20PM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 02:04:30PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > While converting dwc3 to the unified device property interface, I
> > > noticed that there is really nothing preventing of_usb_get_dr_mode and
> > > of_usb_get_maximum_speed from being converted as well. Hope that's OK.
> > >
> >
> > Place the reference for usb_get_dr_mode and usb_get_maximum_speed
> > at otg.h and ch9.h may not be good, why not add a common.h which
> > is at include/linux/usb/ too.
>
> Why? I'm not going to introduce new header file for prototypes which
> depend on constants defined in other header files, unless there is a
> really good reason. Please note that the prototypes for the existing
> generic functions in common.c are defined in ch9.h and otg.h.

Ok, I just had considered host controller driver may also call
usb_get_maximum_speed to get platform available speed, so I am
wonder if it is suitable to place it at ch9.h.

>
> These functions are _generic_ helpers for dealing with definitions in
> ch9.h and otg.h, so I don't really see any reason for putting their
> prototypes anywhere else then into those same headers.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> heikki

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen
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