Re: [PATCH 0/5] extcon: usb: Introduce USB GPIO extcon driver. Fix DRA7 USB.

[Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>]

On 22/01/15 15:32, Roger Quadros wrote:
> Felipe,
> 
> On 20/01/15 21:02, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:52:17PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On DRA7 EVMs the USB ID pin is connected to a GPIO line. The USB drivers
>>> (dwc3 + dwc3-omap) depend on extcon framework to get the USB cable state
>>> (USB or USB-Host) to put the controller in the right mode.
>>>
>>> There were earlier attempts [1] to get this working by trying to patch up
>>> the existing GPIO extcon driver.
>>>
>>> This series attemts to take a different approach by introducing a new
>>> USB specific extcon driver to handle the USB ID GPIO pin and
>>> interpret a right USB cable state.
>>>
>>> The reasoning to introduce this new driver is:
>>> 1) The existing GPIO extcon driver doesn't understand USB cable states
>>> and it can't handle more than one cable per instance.
>>>    
>>> For the USB case we need to handle at least 2 cable states.
>>>     a) USB (attach/detach)
>>>     b) USB-Host (attach/detach)
>>> and could possible include more states like
>>>     c) Fast-charger (attach/detach)
>>>     d) Slow-charger (attach/detach)
>>>     
>>> 2) This USB specific driver can be easily updated in the future to
>>> handle VBUS events, or charger detect events, in case it happens
>>> to be available on GPIO for any platform.
>>>
>>> 3) The DT implementation is very easy. You just need one extcon node per USB
>>> instead of one extcon node per cable state as in case of [1].
>>>
>>> 4) The cable state string doesn't need to be encoded in the device tree
>>> as in case of [1].
>>>
>>> 5) With only ID event available, you can simulate a USB-peripheral attach
>>> when USB-Host is detacted instead of hacking the USB driver to do the same.
>>>
>>> Tested on DRA7-evm and DRA72-evm.
>>
>> while at that, you might want to patch X15 too.
>>
> USB2 port is meant for peripheral use only. ID pin from USB port is not connected to GPIO.
> 

OK answering myself here :).
Peripheral mode doesn't work on x15-bb as the USB driver (dwc3-omap)
doesn't set the mailbox correctly even when dwc3 node is set as otg = "peripheral".

Looks like we need to implement usb-gpio-extcon for x15 even though ID is hard coded.

cheers,
-roger