On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:55:47AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:44:42 +0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> escreveu:
> 
> > Em Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:35:55 +0200
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> escreveu:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 05:59:32PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:  
> > > > From: Yu Chen <[email protected]>
> > > > 
> > > > The HiKey960 has a fairly complex USB configuration due to it
> > > > needing to support a USB-C port for host/device mode and multiple
> > > > USB-A ports in host mode, all using a single USB controller.
> > > > 
> > > > See schematics here:
> > > >   
> > > > https://github.com/96boards/documentation/raw/master/consumer/hikey/hikey960/hardware-docs/HiKey960_Schematics.pdf
> > > > 
> > > > This driver acts as a usb-role-switch intermediary, intercepting
> > > > the role switch notifications from the tcpm code, and passing
> > > > them on to the dwc3 core.
> > > > 
> > > > In doing so, it also controls the onboard hub and power gpios in
> > > > order to properly route the data lines between the USB-C port
> > > > and the onboard hub to the USB-A ports.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yu Chen <[email protected]>
> > > > [jstultz: Major rework to make the driver a usb-role-switch
> > > >           intermediary]
> > > > Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
> > > > ---
> > > >  MAINTAINERS                   |   7 ++
> > > >  drivers/misc/Kconfig          |   9 ++
> > > >  drivers/misc/Makefile         |   1 +
> > > >  drivers/misc/hisi_hikey_usb.c | 205 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  4 files changed, 222 insertions(+)
> > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/hisi_hikey_usb.c    
> > > 
> > > Can this, and the next patch, go into my char-misc tree independent of
> > > the other patches in this series?   
> > 
> > Yes, they can go via char-misc tree. The drivers are independent.
> > 
> 
> Forgot to ask: should I re-send the patches on a separate series?

Sure, that would make things much easier for me so that I "know" I have
the right patches to apply.

thanks,

greg k-h

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