Re: [GIT PULL] USB/PHY patches for 4.13-rc1

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 09:15:55AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > USB/PHY patches for 4.13-rc1
>>
>> >> > Heikki Krogerus (3):
>> >> >       usb: typec: Add support for UCSI interface
>> >>
>> >> Commit c1b0bc2dabfa884d ("usb: typec: Add support for UCSI interface"):
>> >>
>> >> > --- /dev/null
>> >> > +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/Kconfig
>> >> > @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
>> >> > +config TYPEC_UCSI
>> >> > +       tristate "USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver"
>> >> > +       depends on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> >>
>> >> To work as expected, and prevent this driver from being enabled on big endian
>> >> systems, this depends on "[PATCH v3 0/3] Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN or warn for
>> >> inconsistencies".
>> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/12/1068
>> >
>> > Is this a problem?
>>
>> I have no idea what happens if you enable the driver on big endian.
>
> As I don't think anyone has USB type-c hardware for such a system, we
> should be ok for now :)

Insert PCIe USB-C adapter into SPARC system?

But the actual platform-specific driver depends on ACPI, so the world should
be safe ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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