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Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:00:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
cc:	Michal Nazarewicz <mnazarewicz@...gle.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Yang Rui Rui <ruirui.r.yang@...to.com>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/4] usb: gadget: replace "is_dualspeed" with "max_speed"

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:43:44AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > if they are both part of the of the same configuration, full speed.
> > > Otherwise Audio won't work. If they are part of different
> > > configurations, then maximum_speed will be defined by the chosen config,
> > > no ?
> > 
> > No.  The speed has to be chosen first, when the gadget connects to the 
> > host.  The config isn't chosen until later, after the host retrieves 
> > the various descriptors and decides among them.
> 
> true
> 
> > > I stand with the fact that if they are part of the same configuration,
> > > there's no way around it, storage will have to come down to full speed.
> > > Unless I'm missing something.
> > 
> > What if they are in different configurations?
> 
> then you use the fastest speed between both configurations?

I simply don't know.  It's a difficult problem.

For the time being, perhaps the best answer is to use the _lowest_ 
max_speed value among all the function drivers.  It's the simplest 
answer and most likely to be correct most of the time.

If anybody ever does want to put together a composite gadget that runs
faster than full speed but still provides a midi function ... well,
they'll just have to update the midi gadget driver.

(Actually that's a bogus example.  It turns out that gmidi.c doesn't 
support the composite framework.  Oh well.)

Alan Stern

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