On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:19:49AM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 09:06:47AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 03:33:44PM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:55:34PM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 08:03:15AM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> > > > > Add controller reset API, it may be used for host/otg driver in 
> > > > > future.
> > > > 
> > > > you need a better commit log here. How would it be used ? when ? And,
> > > > more importantly, why ?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I will add more information
> > > 
> > > > Why would we need to reset the IP outside of ->probe() ?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't oppose to the refactoring, but why would we ever need to reset
> > > > this IP ?
> > > 
> > > Usually, we need to below reset controller at below situations:
> > > - Role switch, host->device and device->host
> > > - Return from hibernation, which the controller will lost its power,
> > >   and the content of the register are lost.
> > 
> > resetting is probably not the best solution in either case, though. It
> > might be the easiest, but not the best. For suspend/resume, you would be
> > better off saving/restoring contenxt and for role switch, you could just
> > reprogram the few registers which need to change when role swapping.
> > 
> 
> For safe reason, it is better to do reset controller at above two
> situations. Why we need to do reset at probe, it may also work if
> we program register directly.

safety ? That's marketting parlance for "I don't know how this works"
:-)

In any case, it has been there for such a long time anyway so I won't
block $subject. Still something to add to your TODO list.

-- 
balbi

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