linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: udc: add gadget state kobject uevent

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:27:36 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Rong Wang <wr011235813@...il.com>
CC:	<balbi@...com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <Rong.Wang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: udc: add gadget state kobject uevent

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:04:54PM +0800, Rong Wang wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:31:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >> > The question is since we default GADGET, so the g_mass_storage.ko is
> >> > installed early but connecting to a host PC
> >> > is randomly, But the udev has no idea when a host PC connects our device.
> >> >
> >> > So we consider it's reasonable to let the udev know the GADGET device state.
> >> > Is there any alternative to our question?
> >>
> >> I thought we already export events for gadget device states, have you
> >> looked for them?  I can't dig through the code at the moment, but this
> >> seems like a pretty common issue...
> >>
> >> Felipe, any ideas?
> >
> > we already expose that in sysfs. IIRC udev can act on sysfs changes,
> > no ?
> 
> I do not know if udev can polling sysfs file content change. I'll study this.
> 
> But the change is triggered by calling usb_gadget_set_state, and I find
> composite framework do not call this. Then we should do this common work
> in every udc driver?

yes. Only the UDC driver knows when the controller is moving among those
states.

-- 
balbi

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