Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Broadcom USB DRD Phy driver for Northstar2

[Raviteja Garimella]

Hi Kishon,

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
>
> On Wednesday 05 April 2017 06:30 PM, Raviteja Garimella wrote:
>> Hi Kishon,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 28 March 2017 05:57 PM, Raviteja Garimella wrote:
>>>> This is driver for USB DRD Phy used in Broadcom's Northstar2
>>>> SoC. The phy can be configured to be in Device mode or Host
>>>> mode based on the type of cable connected to the port. The
>>>> driver registers to  extcon framework to get appropriate
>>>> connect events for Host/Device cables connect/disconnect
>>>> states based on VBUS and ID interrupts.
>>>
>>> $patch should be phy: phy-bcm-ns2-usbdrd: USB DRD Phy driver for Broadcoms
>>> Northstar2.
>>>
>>
>> Will do.
>>
>>> Sorry for not letting you know this earlier. But I feel the design of the
>>> driver should be changed. Extcon shouldn't be used here. The extcon
>>> notifications should be sent to the consumer driver and the consumer driver
>>> should be responsible for invoking the phy ops.
>>>
>>
>> The consumer drivers here would be a UDC driver (USB device
>> controller), EHCI and OHCI host controller drivers.
>> I was already suggested in UDC driver review to deal with extcon in Phy driver.
>>
>> This phy connects to 2 host controllers, and one device controller.
>> That's the design in Broadcom Northstar2
>> platform. The values of the VBUS and ID pins of this port are
>> determined based on the type of the cable (device cable
>> or host cable). And. phy has to be configured accordingly.
>>
>>> The phy ops being invoked during extcon events doesn't look right.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate on the concern, so that we can think of
>> mitigating those issues in this driver?
>> Since we are dealing with phy init/shutdown in this driver itself, are
>> you okay with moving the extcon handling code
>> out of phy ops ?
>
> yeah, For e.g., ns2_drd_phy_init is part of phy_ops and is being invoked from
> extcon events too. Can a phy which is initialized by a phy consumer (say your
> UDC invokes phy_init) can be shutdown by an extcon event?
>
> Maybe a clear explanation of when phy_ops here will be invoked and when it will
> set using extcon events might help.
>

Say, we have a USB pendrive which is connected to the DRD port through
a host cable.
Now the PHY will be initialized to be in host mode.
When the pendrive is unplugged, and we now connect the NS2 device to
some linux PC,
now the PHY has to be shutdown, and re-initialized to be in Device mode.

On unplug event, it is set neither to Host nor Device mode (basically
shutdown). Next time which ever cable is connected, the PHY is
initialized to the respective
mode.

Please let me know if it's fine to do these initializations outside
phy ops, because those will
be irrelevant for phy consumers (the controllers) as it's anyways
dealt in the phy driver through
extcon.

Thanks,
Ravi


> Thanks
> Kishon