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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:46:25 +0300
From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@...ux.intel.com>
To: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>,
Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
Pawel Laszczak <pawell@...ence.com>
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Suresh Punnoose <sureshp@...ence.com>,
Jayshri Dajiram Pawar <jpawar@...ence.com>,
Rahul Kumar <kurahul@...ence.com>,
Anil Joy Varughese <aniljoy@...ence.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/6] usb:cdns3 Add Cadence USB3 DRD Driver
Hi,
Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com> writes:
>> The sysfs file we expose from the class for the role switches is
>> primarily meant for supporting proprietary protocols that require us
>> to basically override the connector USB data role. The default role
>> should always be selected in the drivers.
>
> OK. Let's take this example
> - Port is dual-role port micro AB.
> - microAB to type-A adapter is connected which pulls ID low. port transitions
> to "host" role by the controller driver.
> - proprietary protocol want to switch role to device role so writes "device" to
> mode switch sysfs. port transitions to "device" role.
>
> Now, how does controller driver know to fall back to HW based role switching?
Use a 'disconnect' or 'suspend' event to go reset it? But that should,
probably, be done at kernel space, no?
--
balbi
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