Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] usb: dwc2: Add a quirk to allow speed negotiation for Hisilicon Hi6220

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Dec 13 2016 - 08:24:16 EST


On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, John Stultz wrote:

> From: Chen Yu <chenyu56@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The Hi6220's usb controller is limited in that it does not
> support "Split Transactions", so it does not support communicating
> with low-speed and full-speed devices behind a high-speed hub.
>
> Thus it requires a quirk so that we can manually drop the usb
> speed when low/full-speed are attached, and bump back to high
> speed when they are removed.

Just out of curiosity (I know nothing about this hardware), what
happens if there is a high-speed hub plugged into the host controller
and both a high-speed and a full-speed device plugged into the hub?

Do you end up forcing the high-speed device to run at full speed?

Alan Stern