RE: USB host pci-quirks

[Aleksey Gorelov]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Oskar Senft [mailto:osk-lkml@xxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:38 PM
>To: Aleksey Gorelov; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: USB host pci-quirks
>
>Dear Aleksey,
>
>thank you for your e-mail!
>
>>>Is there a special need, that the "drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c" is
>>>compiled into the kernel even if USB support is disabled?
>> 
>>   Yes, there is. USB handoff is necessary even if USB support is
>> disabled completely in kernel. In fact, initially early usb 
>handoff code
>> was under pci, but since USB drivers do handoff anyway, it 
>was decided
>> to move everything into usb with a goal of merging them together. 
>>   Just search for USB handoff in kernel archives.
>
>I see ... but as David Brownell already stated on Thu Sep 02 2004 -
>20:07:57 EST:
>For backwards compatibility, the early reset should not be the
>default. There aren't many systems where it's a problem.
>
>What happened to that argument?

There's been a lot of reports since then for hardware which does require
handoff. Hence it's been made default. I did not see any compatibility
issues, but that does not mean they do not exist.

Aleks.

>
>Regards,
>Oskar.
>
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