Re: [PATCH v8 07/16] usb: core: Move struct usb_port and related APIs to port.h

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 04:41:46PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> |struct usb_port| and its matching container_of() macro should live in
> its own port.h, matching the split we have for .c files.
> 
> Move them as described. Also move usb_port_is_power_on(), since in the
> next change its |struct usb_hub *| parameter will be changed to
> |struct usb_port *|, and becomes a non-static function that only
> references |struct usb_port|.
> 
> port.h is only included from hub.h, as a subsequent patch will directly
> use fields from |struct usb_port| in a static inline helper in hub.h.
> The USB internal headers don't have header guards to help with this.
> 
> Also drop 'extern' from the header declaration of usb_port_is_power_on().
> This is not needed in modern C.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]>
> ---

> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/port.h b/drivers/usb/core/port.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..00f7500af336
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/port.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/*
> + * usb hub driver head file
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 1999 Linus Torvalds
> + * Copyright (C) 1999 Johannes Erdfelt
> + * Copyright (C) 1999 Gregory P. Smith
> + * Copyright (C) 2001 Brad Hards ([email protected])
> + * Copyright (C) 2012 Intel Corp ([email protected])

These copyright notices are entirely inappropriate for this file.  As 
far as I know, none of these people wrote any of the code you moved 
here.

Alan Stern