Re: [PATCH] usb: typec: ucsi_ccg: Add retry mechanism in ccg_read

[Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 11:28:05PM +0800, Wayne Chang wrote:
> CCG4 firmware occasionally fails to respond to I2C read requests,
> especially when reading cci and intr_reg from the ISR path. In these
> cases, i2c_transfer() returns -EREMOTEIO.
> 
> The CCG4 is EOL, and Infineon no longer supports firmware updates, so
> a software workaround is necessary.
> 
> Retry the read operation up to three times (four attempts total)
> when -EREMOTEIO is returned, with a 1-2 ms sleep between retries.
> This allows recovery from transient I2C failures without affecting
> other error paths.
> 
> The sleep is safe because ccg_read() is called both from process
> context and from ccg_irq_handler(), which runs in threaded IRQ
> context (registered via request_threaded_irq() with a NULL hard-IRQ
> handler), so sleeping is allowed in both cases.
> 
> Fixes: 247c554a14aa ("usb: typec: ucsi: add support for Cypress CCGx")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Wayne Chang <waynec@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c
> index 91c2958a708c..da8beb14d84c 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c
> @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ struct version_format {
>  #define NVIDIA_FTB_DP_OFFSET	(2)
>  #define NVIDIA_FTB_DBG_OFFSET	(3)
>  
> +#define CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES	3
> +
>  struct version_info {
>  	struct version_format base;
>  	struct version_format app;
> @@ -255,6 +257,7 @@ static int ccg_read(struct ucsi_ccg *uc, u16 rab, u8 *data, u32 len)
>  	};
>  	u32 rlen, rem_len = len, max_read_len = len;
>  	int status;
> +	int retry_count;
>  
>  	/* check any max_read_len limitation on i2c adapter */
>  	if (quirks && quirks->max_read_len)
> @@ -266,7 +269,17 @@ static int ccg_read(struct ucsi_ccg *uc, u16 rab, u8 *data, u32 len)
>  		rlen = min_t(u16, rem_len, max_read_len);
>  		msgs[1].len = rlen;
>  		put_unaligned_le16(rab, buf);
> -		status = i2c_transfer(client->adapter, msgs, ARRAY_SIZE(msgs));
> +
> +		for (retry_count = 0; retry_count <= CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES; retry_count++) {

That will run up to 4 times even though your maximum is defined 3?

> +			status = i2c_transfer(client->adapter, msgs, ARRAY_SIZE(msgs));
> +
> +			/* Only retry on -EREMOTEIO, and not after the last attempt */
> +			if (status != -EREMOTEIO || retry_count == CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES)
> +				break;
> +
> +			usleep_range(1000, 2000);

fsleep(1000);

> +		}
> +
>  		if (status < 0) {
>  			dev_err(uc->dev, "i2c_transfer failed %d\n", status);
>  			pm_runtime_put_sync(uc->dev);
> 
> base-commit: 940de590b839f71d6dc846160534bf202401b8b7
> -- 
> 2.25.1

-- 
heikki