Re: [RFC PATCH] USB:XHCI:Modify XHCI driver for USB2.0 controller
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: 2021-02-27 16:28:25
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:38:08AM +0800, liulongfang wrote:
On 2021/2/27 0:30, Alan Stern wrote:quoted
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 04:21:37PM +0800, Longfang Liu wrote:quoted
Our current XHCI hardware controller has been customized to only support USB 2.0 ports. When using the current xhci driver, an xhci controller device and an ehci controller device will be created automatically.That sentence makes no sense at all. An EHCI controller device is a piece of hardware. How can an xHCI driver, which is a piece of software, create a piece of hardware? Alan Stern .The hardware device is a complete USB3.0 controller, but I hope to support a USB2.0-only mode through software configuration.
Even if it only supports USB-2.0 connections, an xHCI controller is still an xHCI controller. It doesn't magically transform into an EHCI controller. You are not creating an EHCI controller device. Rather, you are trying to restrict an xHCI controller device to make it handle only USB-2.0 connections. If you run lsusb on a system that has an xHCI controller, you'll see that the controller is bound to two USB buses: a USB-2 bus and a USB-3 bus. But for both buses, the controller is xHCI -- not EHCI. Your patch description is inaccurate. Alan Stern