Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: usb/dwc3: fake dissconnect event when turn off pullup

[Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>]

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Hi,

John Youn <John.Youn@synopsys.com> writes:
>> "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com> writes:
>>> Hi, Balbi,
>>>
>>> The step to reproduce this issue is:
>>> 1) connect device to a host and wait its enumeration.
>>> 2) trigger software disconnect by calling function
>>>     usb_gadget_disconnect(), which finally call
>>>    dwc3_gadget_pullup(false). Do not reconnect device
>>>   (I mean no enumeration go on, keep bit Run/Stop 0.).
>>>
>>> At here, gadget driver's disconnect callback should be
>>> Called, right? We has been disconnected. But no, as
>>> You said " not generating disconnect IRQ after you
>>> drop Run/Stop is expected".
>>>
>>> And I am testing on an Android device, Android only
>>> use dwc3_gadget_pullup(false) to issue a soft disconnection.
>>> This confused user that the UI still show usb as connected
>>> State, caused by missing a disconnect event.
>> 
>> okay, so I know what this is. This is caused by Android gadget itself
>> not notifying the gadget that a disconnect has happened. Just look at
>> udc-core's soft_connect implementation for the sysfs interface, and
>> you'll see what I mean.
>> 
>> This should be fixed at Android gadget itself. The only thing we could
>> do is introduce a new usb_gadget_soft_connect()/disconnect() to wrap the
>> logic so it's easier for Android gadget to use; but even that I'm a
>> little bit reluctant to do because Android should be using our
>> soft_connect interface instead of reimplementing it (wrongly) by its
>> own.
>> 
>
> We've run in to the same issue with our usb_gadget_driver.
>
> If the usb_gadget_disconnect() API function, which seems like it is
> intended to be called by the gadget_driver, does cause the gadget to
> disconnect, it seems reasonable to expect the gadget or the UDC core
> to notify the gadget_driver via the callback.

Well, the API is supposed to disconnect D+ pullup and that's about it.

> As you mentioned this is handled in the soft_disconnect sysfs. Why
> shouldn't usb_gadget_disconnect() do the same thing, if not the gadget

because there might be cases where we don't need/want the gadget to know
about this disconnect.

> itself? Exposing the sysfs as an API function would work too. Though

it already _is_ exported. I just don't know why people are re-inventing
the same solution :-)

> both functions are "soft" disconnects and both are called
> "disconnect".
>
> In our gadget_driver we do the workaround where we notify ourself that
> we called the usb_gadget_disconnect() and that we should now be

you could just rely on the sysfs interface, right ? :-)

> disconnected. It just seems more correct that we shouldn't have to
> handle that.
>
> By the way, I'm not completely sure of the correct terminology, but
> I'm referring to the struct usb_gadget (dwc3, dwc2, etc) as the
> "gadget" and the struct usb_gadget_driver as the "gadget_driver"
> (normally this would be the composite gadget framework, but we are
> using our own driver in this case). Is there a less confusing way to
> refer to these :)

what I've been doing is that I refer to dwc3, dwc3, etc as UDC (as in
USB Device Controller) and g_mass_storage, g_ether, g_zero, etc as
gadget driver.

-- 
balbi

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