[PATCH v2] [RESEND] Enable USB gadget subsystem outside ARM

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It's generally useful. On other architectures the UDC capable hardware might
>>>> not be very common, but the dummy HCD makes it possible to use such hardware
>>>> for development and emulation of USB gadget driver code.
>>>
>>> ACK from me
>>
>> I'm not at all sold on this to be honest.  Coverity just picked up a
>> bunch of issues in this subsystem during the last merge window and the
>> overall USB subsystem maintainer doesn't even enable these drivers in
>> his build testing.  It seems to be a lot of churn for very little
>> gain.
>>
>> Also, if the dummy HCD driver is the only marginally useful thing on
>> x86, why copy all of the stuff in the ARM config blindly?  Isn't it
>> feasible to enable GADGET and HCD on x86 and leave everything else
>> off?
>
> From my PoV I want it in the ARM core package and not in extras as it
> will break stuff for us. I'm ACKing that it won't break any of our
> expected ARM use cases.

OK, fine.

> From an x86 and coverity PoV I can't comment
> other than ask how is it different from any other corner case modules.

It isn't.  And we've been saying no to corner case modules for a while
now.  That doesn't mean we have them all turned off, but we've been
saying no to new requests.

josh