Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:48:54 +0900
From:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
To:	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>,
	'Dongjin Kim' <tobetter@...il.com>
Cc:	'Julius Werner' <jwerner@...omium.org>,
	'LKML' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	'Felipe Balbi' <balbi@...com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
	'Vivek Gautam' <gautam.vivek@...sung.com>,
	'Praveen Paneri' <p.paneri@...sung.com>,
	'Kukjin Kim' <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	'Tushar Behera' <tushar.behera@...aro.org>,
	'Doug Anderson' <dianders@...omium.org>,
	'Olof Johansson' <olofj@...omium.org>,
	'Vincent Palatin' <vpalatin@...omium.org>,
	'Thomas Abraham' <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>,
	'Fabio Estevam' <festevam@...il.com>,
	'Philipp Zabel' <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	Yulgon Kim <yulgon.kim@...sung.com>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: phy: samsung-usb2: Toggle HSIC GPIO from device tree

On Friday, July 12, 2013 6:46 AM, Julius Werner wrote:
> 
> Hi Jingoo,
> 
> Yeah, I followed that discussion back then, but it seems to have
> stalled a little (at least the HSIC patches haven't been picked up in
> any kernel.org repo yet to my knowledge).
> 
> The problem is that I think these approaches cannot work reliably. I
> agree that it would be nice to control the HSIC device from its own
> driver, and have spent quite some time playing around with the
> usb/misc/usb3503.c driver to try to make this work... but there's a
> timing dependency here that you just can't model correctly with
> independent drivers.
> 
> If the HSIC device is already active during boot (e.g. because it was
> used by firmware), there's always a chance that the USB stack will
> come up before the driver that resets it does. The device will be
> enumerated as normal, and when the other driver later pulls the reset
> signal the USB stack will not notice because there is no real
> disconnect detection on HSIC. Only when you eventually try to send
> another transfer to the device will you start to get timeouts, and the
> newly reset device will not be able to reenumerate because the host
> never asks it to.
> 
> I really don't see how you could solve this without putting some kind
> of synchronization mechanism in the USB drivers. So this leaves
> ehci-s5p and phy-samsung-usb2 as the only possible places, and I chose
> the latter since all the host-side HSIC initialization is also there
> already. I think if you think of it as "reset whatever is on the other
> side of this PHY", it's okay to put it as an optional feature into the
> PHY driver.

CC'ed Tomasz Figa, Dongjin Kim, Yulgon Kim


Hi Tomasz, Dongjin,

Julius Werner wants to put 'SMSC 3503 hub reset on Arndale board'
to 'phy-samsung-usb*.c' files, because there is a timing dependency
above mentioned.
The following is the original patch sent by Julius Werner two day ago.
(http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg20250.html)

Previously, Olof mentioned that 'drivers/platform/arm/' would be used.
(http://patches.linaro.org/16856/)

Also, another way was mentioned by Fabio Estevam, using 
'drivers/reset/gpio-reset.c' which is not merged yet.
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/36830)

I think that 'phy-samsung-usb*.c' files are not a good place.
However, Julius Werner's comment looks reasonable enough.

If you have a comment, please feel free to share it. :)
Thank you.

Best regards,
Jingoo Han


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