linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 06/14] usb: core: hcd: Introduce USB HCD APIs for interrupter management

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Date:   Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:59:03 +0100
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     Wesley Cheng <quic_wcheng@...cinc.com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org, mathias.nyman@...el.com,
        perex@...ex.cz, broonie@...nel.org, lgirdwood@...il.com,
        andersson@...nel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Thinh.Nguyen@...opsys.com,
        bgoswami@...cinc.com, tiwai@...e.com, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        agross@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
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        quic_jackp@...cinc.com, quic_plai@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 06/14] usb: core: hcd: Introduce USB HCD APIs for
 interrupter management



On 27.12.22 22:07, Wesley Cheng wrote:

> 
> Hmmm...maybe I should change the name of the API then to avoid the confusion.  Yes, usb_hcd_flush_endpoint() does ensure that URBs submitted to the EP are stopped.  However, with this offloading concept, we aren't actually submitting URBs from the main processor, so the ep->urb_list will be empty.
> 
> This means the usb_hcd_flush_endpoint() API won't actually do anything.  What we need is to ensure that we send a XHCI stop ep command to the controller.

That is a concept specific to XHCI, yet you are adding a generic
API. The namin should reflect that. usb_quiesce_endpoint() ?

	Regards
		Oliver