[PATCH v13 06/12] usb: xhci: use bus->sysdev for DMA configuration

[hzpeterchen@gmail.com (Peter Chen)]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:18:03AM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> On 15/02/17 03:35, Peter Chen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 01:58:40PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> wrote:
> >>> On 14/02/17 13:44, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> Why are we using sysdev to read DT property? We should be using the
> >>>>> XHCI device (&pdev->dev) here, no?
> >>>>
> >>>> If I remember correctly, this is one of the cases where pdev does not
> >>>> have a device node attached to it because it was created by the driver
> >>>> of the parent device on the fly in case of dwc3. When you have a pure xhci
> >>>> device in DT, the two pointers are the same.
> >>>
> >>> From drivers/usb/dwc3/host.c
> >>>
> >>>>         if (dwc->usb3_lpm_capable) {
> >>>>                 props[0].name = "usb3-lpm-capable";
> >>>>                 ret = platform_device_add_properties(xhci, props);
> >>>>                 if (ret) {
> >>>>                         dev_err(dwc->dev, "failed to add properties to xHCI\n");
> >>>>                         goto err1;
> >>>>                 }
> >>>>         }
> >>>
> >>> So it is setting the usb3-lpm-capable property into the xhci platform device
> >>> and we should be reading the property from there.
> > 
> > Why dwc3 needs another "snps,usb3_lpm_capable"? Why not using
> > "usb3-lpm-capable" at firmware directly?
> 
> dwc3 is not setting "snps,usb3_lpm_capable" but "usb3-lpm-capable" for the
> xhci platform device.
> 
> What did you mean by firmware? Did you mean something like BIOS?
> At least TI platforms don't use any firmware like BIOS. So dwc3 driver
> needs to create a platform device for xhci on the fly and set the DT properties.
> 

By readying code, the dwc3 calls dwc3_get_properties to set
dwc->usb3_lpm_capable, and at dwc3/host.c, it sets property
"usb3-lpm-capable" according to this flag, why not let common
code xhci-plat.c to get this property from sysdev which is DT
nodes for dwc3?

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen