Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Add ChromeOS EC USB driver

[Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Dawid Niedźwiecki wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:00:28AM +0000, Dawid Niedzwiecki wrote:
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Do not register the same EC device twice. The probing is performed every
> > > +      * reboot, sysjump, crash etc. Recreating the /dev/cros_X file every time
> > > +      * would force all application to reopen the file, which is not a case for
> > > +      * other cros_ec_x divers. Instead, keep the cros_ec_device and cros_ec_usb
> > > +      * structures constant and replace USB related structures for the same EC
> > > +      * that is reprobed.
> > > +      *
> > > +      * The driver doesn't support handling two devices with the same idProduct,
> > > +      * but it will never be a real usecase.
> > > +      */
> >
> > I don't quite understand why does it need to memorize the registered ECs.
> > Supposedly, the probe function is only called few times during booting, and
> > gets success once. Hot-plugs?
> >
> 
> The probe is called every time the EC device boots from the beginning
> - sysjumps, crashes, reboots etc. It succeeds the first time.
> Once the /dev/cros_X file is created, we need the possibility to
> access the same EC device, with the same, previously created file.
> The only way to do that is to reused the already created
> cros_ec_device structure.

What are the shortcomings if it re-creates /dev/cros_X everytime? Isn't it
also a way for userland programs to be aware of the EC device crashes?

Why other cros_ec_X drivers doesn't need the mechanism?