Re: [RFC 0/8] usb: phy: msm: various cleanups

[Andy Gross]

On 19 May 2016 at 01:52, Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I stumbled over this warning last week, which showed up after I had
>> removed an incorrect patch from my randconfig build setup:
>>
>> drivers/usb/phy/phy-msm-usb.c: In function 'msm_otg_probe':
>> drivers/usb/phy/phy-msm-usb.c:1735:14: error: 'regs[0].consumer' may be
>> used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>   motg->vddcx = regs[0].consumer;
>>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/usb/phy/phy-msm-usb.c:1736:14: error: 'regs[1].consumer' may be
>> used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>   motg->v3p3  = regs[1].consumer;
>>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/usb/phy/phy-msm-usb.c:1737:14: error: 'regs[2].consumer' may be
>> used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>   motg->v1p8  = regs[2].consumer;
>>   ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Having already fixed the same problem in the phy-qcom-8x16-usb.c
>> driver before, I tried to do the same thing here, but it turned
>> out to be somewhat different, and I ended up running into several
>> unrelated issues in the driver that I now try to fix up.
>>
>> The series is not tested beyond verifying that it no longer causes
>> randconfig warnings, and some patches are not entirely obvious.
>> In particular the ehci-msm and chipidea changes are probably a
>> good idea, but they actually change the behavior of the drivers
>> in a way that I cannot verify through inspection alone. The
>> last patch in the series probably requires some changes to the
>> devicetree files to go along with it.
>>
>> Please have a look and test this, provided the patches make sense
>> conceptually.
>>
>>
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> MSM USB driver uses phy driver for dual-role (otg) switch, chipidea
> driver for peripheral function, a dedicated ehci file for host driver,
> so these three driver will access the same controller register space,
> it is not a good practice.

Agreed.  It's a huge mess.  And it is currently being reworked.

> In fact, MSM USB2 can use chipidea driver as controller driver, and its
> phy driver dedicate for USB PHY function with some changes.

Yeah I noticed with the addition of the host controller we can do this, which
was the impetus for reworking.  In the end, we'll have just the qcom-ci and
a phy.


Regards,
Andy