octeon-usb and dwc2 in staging are for the same hw

[David Daney]

On 08/16/2013 02:07 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:51:57PM +0000, Paul Zimmerman wrote:
>>> From: Aaro Koskinen [mailto:aaro.koskinen at iki.fi]
>>> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:45 PM
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 06:35:10PM +0000, Paul Zimmerman wrote:
>>>> Aaro, I would ask you the same question. Is the Octeon driver fully
>>>> functional? Are there any shortcomings with it that you know about?
>>>
>>> I sent this driver when mainlining the support for EdgeRouter Lite
>>> (http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax), and at the time I thought it was purely
>>> Octeon specific HCD driver (the source code does not give much hits
>>> about the actual HW block, and the vendor's GPL tar ball is my only
>>> documentation). On that hardware it works well - I have run stress tests
>>> with duration of couple of days with the mainline kernel and never
>>> seen any stability or any other issues. But if you consider it as a
>>> general purpose DWC2 driver it's probably a pile of crap, as it's full
>>> Octeon-specific hacks and assumptions.


octeon-usb doesn't support device mode operation, only host mode.

As far as host mode operation is concerned, I know of no deficiencies.

If all the problems RaspberryPi users have had with the DWC2 driver have 
been fixed, I have no problem with making OCTEON work with that driver. 
  Otherwise, to say that octeon-usb has shortcomings is a bit disingenuous.

I haven't been following DWC2 driver development, so I don't really know 
its current status.

David Daney