On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:28 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote: > >> Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter via the udbg facility on > >> the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles. > >> The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides > >> a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial converter. > > > > The main issue here is that the gecko is supposed to be something you > > can plug or unplug no ? Is it hotswap or only at boot ? In the later > > case, maybe the node should be created by the boot wrapper when > > detecting the presence of the device. If it's hotplug, then we need > > something smarter... > > > > The usbgecko is hotplugable and hotswappable. > But as this is mostly a developer feature, not normaly used by end users, > I think that we can just let it be as it is: autodetect it on boot (now > probing > for it instead of using information from the device tree). > If you unplug it later it causes no errors, you just miss whatever data is > sent to it.
Ack. We may still went ultimately to have some kind of nice hotplug driver for that connector and we may even have a usbgecko driver for that things "after boot" that creates areal tty etc... but for now, just a hard probe will do just fine. Of course a real OF implemention is welcome to create a device node for it if it was indeed present at boot time. Cheers, Ben. > > Cheers, > > Ben. > > > > Thanks, > Albert > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
