[PATCHv2 0/2] usb: bcma: control VBUS via a regulator
From: Rosen Penev
Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 17:41:48 EST
bcma-hcd currently drives the USB power line by grabbing the
undocumented "vcc-gpio" property from the controller node and poking
it through gpiolib. Besides relying on a non-standard binding, this
cannot work on boards such as the NETGEAR R7000 and R8000 where one
chipcommon GPIO powers both the USB2 and USB3 cores: the two
controllers each request that GPIO exclusively, so the second one
fails with -EBUSY and its port stays dead.
Instead, switch the driver to the standard regulator interface and
express the power rails as regulator-fixed nodes bound to the
chipcommon GPIOs. The regulator core reference-counts enable/disable
requests, letting both controllers share one GPIO without conflicts.
v2: fixup dts and keep GPIO working.
Rosen Penev (2):
usb: bcma: add regulator support
ARM: dts: broadcom: model USB VBUS power with regulator-fixed
.../broadcom/bcm4708-buffalo-wxr-1750dhp.dts | 12 ++++-
.../bcm4708-buffalo-wzr-1166dhp-common.dtsi | 23 +++++++-
.../broadcom/bcm4708-buffalo-wzr-1750dhp.dts | 23 +++++++-
.../broadcom/bcm4708-linksys-ea6300-v1.dts | 12 ++++-
.../broadcom/bcm4708-linksys-ea6500-v2.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm4708-netgear-r6250.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm4708-netgear-r6300-v2.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47081-luxul-xwr-1200.dts | 12 ++++-
.../broadcom/bcm47081-tplink-archer-c5-v2.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm4709-asus-rt-ac3200.dts | 12 ++++-
.../broadcom/bcm4709-buffalo-wxr-1900dhp.dts | 13 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm4709-linksys-ea9200.dts | 24 ++++++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r7000.dts | 14 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r8000.dts | 14 ++++-
.../broadcom/bcm4709-tplink-archer-c9-v1.dts | 24 ++++++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac3100.dtsi | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac5300.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-dlink-dir-885l.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-dlink-dir-890l.dts | 24 ++++++++-
.../broadcom/bcm47094-linksys-panamera.dts | 24 ++++++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-luxul-abr-4500.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-luxul-xbr-4500.dts | 12 ++++-
.../dts/broadcom/bcm47094-luxul-xwr-3100.dts | 12 ++++-
.../broadcom/bcm47094-luxul-xwr-3150-v1.dts | 12 ++++-
.../arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm947189acdbmr.dts | 12 ++++-
drivers/usb/host/bcma-hcd.c | 54 +++++++++++++++----
26 files changed, 384 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
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