Re: [PATCH] usb: host: Allow EHCI_OMAP to be built-in when USB_GADGET is 'm'

[Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>]

On 01/07/16 12:41, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com> writes:
>>>>>>>> NOP_USB_XCEIV is used not only by gadget drivers but by
>>>>>>>> host drivers as well e.g. EHCI_OMAP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> commit 5a8d651a2bde ("usb: gadget: move gadget API functions to udc-core")
>>>>>>>> made it so that NOP_USB_XCEIV can't be built-in if USB_GADGET is 'm'.
>>>>>>>> But this prevents EHCI_OMAP to be built-in if USB_GADGET is 'm'.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fix this undesired behaviour by moving usb_gadget_vbus_connect/disconnect()
>>>>>>>> to usb/gadget.h so that NOP_USB_XCEIV has no build dependency
>>>>>>>> on USB_GADGET.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Retain the original Kconfig behaviour i.e. NOP_USB_XCEIV is selected
>>>>>>>> by drivers that need it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> no, this is the wrong way to fix this. NOP _has_ a dependency on the
>>>>>>> Gadget API if it calls Gadget API functions. Dependencies are proper.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe the reason for the problem is that we ended up adding far too much
>>>>>>> code to phy-generic.c itself. Maybe it shouldn't know about clks and
>>>>>>> interrupts. The original idea of that driver was to simply satisfy a
>>>>>>> requirement to have a valid transceiver by some platforms. Maybe we
>>>>>>> should fix that instead. Moving functions around to workaround a problem
>>>>>>> is not the way to go, sorry.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK but something that was working all these years is broken by your
>>>>>> patch.
>>>>>> Do you mind fixing it please? Or at least let me know how you want to
>>>>>> get it fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig
>>>>> index 2e710a4cca52..89fd095ca33d 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/Kconfig
>>>>> @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ config USB_EHCI_MXC
>>>>>  config USB_EHCI_HCD_OMAP
>>>>>         tristate "EHCI support for OMAP3 and later chips"
>>>>>         depends on ARCH_OMAP
>>>>> -       depends on NOP_USB_XCEIV
>>>>> +       depends on USB_PHY
>>>>>         default y
>>>>>         ---help---
>>>>>           Enables support for the on-chip EHCI controller on
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> This doesn't fix the real problem. i.e. we can't have NFS root on pandaboard
>>>> and omap5_uevm because network device is on USB EHCI, unless we have
>>>> both USB_GADGET and NOP_USB_XCEVI built-in, which is not really that
>>>> desirable.
>>>
>>> Well, NOP calls a symbol that belongs to the Gadget API. So NOP cannot
>>> be built-in if gadget API is a module. Satisfy the dependencies and
>>> everything will work for you.
>>>
>>> Don't get me wrong, I see what you mean; but you _are_ relying in a
>>> driver that calls into the Gadget API. Consider if it was the other way
>>> around: say NOP was calling something from usbcore for whatever reason
>>> and MUSB depended on NOP. You wouldn't have MUSB built-in unless NOP and
>>> usbcore were also built-in, right?
>>>
>> I agree with you. As far as EHCI_OMAP is concerned we're only interested
>> in configuring the PHY clocks and issuing a GPIO reset.
>> As of now because of dependency issues with GADGET, NOP_USB_XCEIV doesn't
>> seem to be the right place. I'm OK with using some other driver
>> that doesn't have such dependency, even if it breaks DT compatibility with
>> some OMAP boards. Or I'll just let EHCI_OMAP do it all by itself.
>>
>> Unless Tony has any objections.
> 
> I don't have memory of why EHCI-omap is using PHY, actually. Is it
> really resetting a PHY?
> 
on omap3-beagle, omap4-panda and omap5-uevm, we have an external USB PHY
for the EHCI host. That PHY has it's reset line tied to a GPIO and CLK line
tied to one of the SoC clock pins.

cheers,
-roger