Re: [PATCH 4/6] usb: gadget: add functions to signal udc driver to delay status stage

[Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, Paul Elder wrote:

> > Suppose we have a core library routine like this:
> > 
> > void usb_gadget_control_complete(struct usb_gadget *gadget,
> > 		unsigned int no_implicit_status, int status)
> > {
> > 	struct usb_request *req;
> > 
> > 	if (no_implicit_status || status != 0)
> > 		return;
> > 
> > 	/* Send an implicit status-stage request for ep0 */
> > 	req = usb_ep_alloc_request(gadget->ep0, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > 	if (req) {
> > 		req->length = 0;
> > 		req->no_implicit_status = 1;
> > 		req->complete = /* req's deallocation routine */
> > 		usb_ep_queue(gadget->ep0, req, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > 	}
> > }
> > 
> > Then all a UDC driver would need to do is call 
> > usb_gadget_control_complete() after invoking a control request's 
> > completion handler.  The no_implicit_status and status arguments would 
> > be taken from the request that was just completed.
> > 
> > With this one call added to each UDC, all the existing function drivers
> > would work correctly.  Even though they don't explicitly queue
> > status-stage requests, the new routine will do so for them,
> > transparently.  Function drivers that want to handle their own
> > status-stage requests explicitly will merely have to set the
> > req->no_implicit_status bit.
> 
> I think this is a good idea. We still get the benefits of explicit
> status stage without being overly intrusive in the conversion, and we
> maintain the queue-based API.
> 
> Would it be fine for me to proceed in this direction for a v2?

It is as far as I'm concerned (Felipe might not agree).  Knock yourself
out.  :-)

Alan Stern

> > (We might or might not need to watch out for 0-length control-OUT 
> > transfers.  Function drivers _do_ queue status-stage requests for 
> > those.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul Elder