Re: [PATCH] usb: host: xhci-plat: Enable XHCI_SPURIOUS_SUCCESS quirk for xhci-plat

[Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>]

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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:46:29PM +0530, George Cherian wrote:
> >>@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ static void xhci_plat_quirks(struct device *dev, struct xhci_hcd *xhci)
> >>  	 * dev struct in order to setup MSI
> >>  	 */
> >>  	xhci->quirks |= XHCI_BROKEN_MSI;
> >>+
> >>+	/*
> >>+	 * In some xhci controllers which follows xhci 1.0 spec gives a spurious
> >>+	 * success event after a short transfer. This quirk will ignore such
> >>+	 * spurious event. Hit this issue in synopsis xhci controllers with
> >>+	 * hci_version > 0.96
> >>+	 */
> >>+
> >>+	if (xhci->hci_version > 0x96)
> >>+		xhci->quirks |= XHCI_SPURIOUS_SUCCESS;
> >>  }
> >doesn't look like the correct way to do this. What if enabling that
> >quirk on hosts which don't have the quirk cause problems ?
> For a controller which does not have this issue will never get a
> spurious success for short packet ( and that too for only ISOCH).
> 
> per this commit ad808333d Intel xhci: Ignore spurious successful event.
> 
> This spurious successful event behavior isn't technically disallowed by
> the xHCI specification, so make the xHCI driver just ignore the spurious
> completion event.

still we don't want to enable quirks for devices which aren't quirky :-)

Now how Sarah correctly enables the quirk flag only for the known "bad"
Panther Point device.

> >I would suggest adding a platform_data which (in our case) dwc3 will
> >pass to xhci-plat. Then you can do proper revision detection of the
> >synopsys controller and set the quirk only on the failing hosts.
> >
> >BTW, do you have the STARS number for this errata ?
> No STARS number yet.

once we have it, let's make sure to follow what we do on the dwc3 and
list it in a comment. You already that you found the bug with a Synopsys
controller anyway, might as well point to the fact that there is a
ticket with synopsys to track this issue.

cheers

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balbi

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