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From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nehal Bakulchandra Shah <Nehal-Bakulchandra.shah@amd.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kun.liu2@amd.com,
	alexander.deucher@amd.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] usb: dwc3: pci add property to allow user space role switch
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:43:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgt69dfj.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YSXqsXmuom2fFiKN@kuha.fi.intel.com>


Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 08:55:41AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Nehal Bakulchandra Shah <Nehal-Bakulchandra.shah@amd.com> writes:
>> 
>> > For AMD platform there is a requirement to enable user space role
>> > switch from host to device and device to host as customer platform is not
>> > completely capable of OTG i.e. with type C controller it does not have PD
>> > to support role switching. Hence, based ACPI/EC interrupt role switch is
>> > triggered by the usemode script running in background.
>>                    usermode ?
>
> Couldn't you capture that ACPI/EC interrupt in kernel?
>
>> > Signed-off-by: Nehal Bakulchandra Shah <Nehal-Bakulchandra.shah@amd.com>
>> 
>> I'm okay with this, just wondering if we need to Document the property
>> somewhere.
>> 
>> @Heikki, is there a place to document these private properties that's
>> not on DT binding document?
>
> The build-in properties are not documented separately. I've always
> tried to supply DT bindings for all new properties I've proposed.
>
> In this case though, do we need the new property at all? Why not just
> register a normal USB role switch on this platform? It can be either a
> dummy role switch that only passes the user space input to dwc3, or,
> perhaps ideally, it would also be a driver that captures that ACPI/EC
> event/notification and then passes the information from it to dwc3.

I like the actual driver responding to EC IRQ idea.

-- 
balbi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-25  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-24 19:23 [RESEND PATCH 2/2] usb: dwc3: pci add property to allow user space role switch Nehal Bakulchandra Shah
2021-08-25  5:55 ` Felipe Balbi
2021-08-25  7:01   ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-08-25  7:26     ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-08-25 13:50       ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-08-26 14:06         ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-09-02 12:45           ` Shah, Nehal-bakulchandra
2021-09-09 12:55             ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-08-25  7:43     ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2021-08-26 11:13 ` Greg KH

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