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SubjectRe: [PATCHv4 1/4] usb: Provide usb_speed_string() function
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:

> From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>
> In a few places in the kernel, the code prints
> a human-readable USB device speed (eg. "high speed").
> This involves a switch statement sometimes wrapped
> around in ({ ... }) block leading to code repetition.
>
> To mitigate this issue, this commit introduces
> usb_speed_string() function, which returns
> a human-readable name of provided speed.
>
> It also changes a few places switch was used to use
> this new function. This changes a bit the way the
> speed is printed in few instances at the same time
> standardising it.

> --- a/drivers/usb/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/usb/Makefile
> @@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_USB_MUSB_HDRC) += musb/
> obj-$(CONFIG_USB_RENESAS_USBHS) += renesas_usbhs/
> obj-$(CONFIG_USB_OTG_UTILS) += otg/
> obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET) += gadget/
> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += common.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET) += common.o

Will this cause problems? For example, what if CONFIG_USB is Y and
CONFIG_USB_GADGET is M?

Also, it seems a little silly to have an entire kernel module devoted
to a single, little function. This is a symptom of the difficulty of
sharing code between the host-side and gadget-side USB stacks.

Alan Stern



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