Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] usb: roles: Add usb role switch notifier.

From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] usb: roles: Add usb role switch notifier.
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:12:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALAqxLVrEYT5RbL_R0tx_3jHzt7ZuWHDPuEwt1r2iXgPwR+Czw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ea7824f-abc2-4cf6-720a-3668b6286781@redhat.com>

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:59 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 18-10-2019 21:53, John Stultz wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:30 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Looking at drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci.c: tcpci_set_vconn I see that
> >> there is a data struct with vendor specific callbacks and that the
> >> drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci_rt1711h.c implements that.
> >>
> >> So you may want something similar here. But things are tricky here,
> >> because when nothing is connected you want to provide Vbus for
> >> the USB-A ports, which means that if someone then connects a
> >> USB-A to C cable to connect the board to a PC (switching the port
> >> to device mode) there will be a time when both sides are supplying
> >> 5V if I remember the schedule correctly.
> >
> > Ok. Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look at that to see if I can
> > get it to work.
> >
> >> I think that the original hack might not be that bad, the whole hw
> >> design seems so, erm, broken, that you probably cannot do proper
> >> roleswapping anyways.  So just tying Vbus to host mode might be
> >> fine, the question then becomes again how can some other piece
> >> of code listen to the role-switch events...
> >
> > So, at least in the current approach (see the v3 series), I've
> > basically set the hub driver as an role-switch intermediary, sitting
> > between the calls from the tcpm to the dwc3 driver. It actually works
> > better then the earlier notifier method (which had some issues with
> > reliably establishing the initial state on boot).  Does that approach
> > work for you?
>
> That sounds like it might be a nice solution. But I have not seen the
> code, I think I was not Cc-ed on v3. Do you have a patchwork or
> lore.kernel.org link for me?

Oh! I think I had you on CC, maybe it got caught in your spam folder?
My apologies either way! The thread is here:
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191016033340.1288-1-john.stultz@linaro.org/

And the hub/role-switch-intermediary driver is here:
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191016033340.1288-12-john.stultz@linaro.org/

thanks
-john