Re: [PATCH 7/8] usb: dwc3: qcom: Start USB in 'host mode' on the SDM845

[Jeffrey Hugo]

On 6/5/2019 2:34 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jun 2019, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>
> > On Tue 04 Jun 03:44 PDT 2019, Lee Jones wrote:
> >
> > > When booting with Device Tree, the current default boot configuration
> > > table option, the request to boot via 'host mode' comes from the
> > > "dr_mode" property.
> >
> > This has been the default on the MTP, but this is changing as this is
> > causing issues when connected downstream from a hub (the typical
> > development case for the primary USB port of a phone like device) and
> > more importantly we don't have support for the PMIC blocks that control
> > VBUS.
>
> My point is not about which mode is currently chosen.  It's more about
> the capability of choosing which mode is appropriate for a given
> system via DT.
>
> > Once these issues are resolved the dr_mode would be "otg".
>
> OTG doesn't work on this H/W, so we need to specify "host" mode.

How have you made that determination?

> > > A property of the same name can be used inside
> > > ACPI tables too.  However it is missing from the SDM845's ACPI tables
> > > so we have to supply this information using Platform Device Properites
> > > instead.
> >
> > Afaict this would install a fall-back property, so in the case that we
> > have specified dr_mode in DT (or ACPI) that would take precedence. So
>
> That's correct.
>
> > the commit message should reflect that this redefines the default choice
> > to be "host", rather than "otg".
>
> No problem. >
> > Which is in conflict with what's described for dr_mode in
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/generic.txt
>
> This implementation only affects ACPI based platforms.  When booting
> with DT, the description in that DT related document is still
> accurate.
>
> > And this driver is used on a range of different Qualcomm platforms, so I
> > don't think this is SDM845 specific.
>
> ACPI based platforms?
>
> All the ones I've seen use the XHCI USB driver directly ("PNP0D10").
>   
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c
> > > index 349bf549ee44..f21fdd6cdd1a 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c
> > > @@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id dwc3_qcom_acpi_match[] = {
> > >   };
> > >   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, dwc3_qcom_acpi_match);
> > >   
> > > +static const struct property_entry dwc3_qcom_acpi_properties[] = {
> > > +	PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("dr_mode", "host"),
> > > +	{}
> > > +};
> > > +
> > >   static int dwc3_qcom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >   {
> > >   	struct device_node	*np = pdev->dev.of_node, *dwc3_np;
> > > @@ -603,6 +608,13 @@ static int dwc3_qcom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >   			goto platform_unalloc;
> > >   		}
> > >   
> > > +		ret = platform_device_add_properties(qcom->dwc3,
> > > +						     dwc3_qcom_acpi_properties);
> > > +		if (ret < 0) {
> > > +			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to add properties\n");
> > > +			goto platform_unalloc;
> > > +		}
> > > +
> > >   		ret = platform_device_add(qcom->dwc3);
> > >   		if (ret) {
> > >   			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to add device\n");


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