RE: [RFC PATCH 1/1] usb: udc-core: redo usb_gadget_probe_driver when the udc is ready

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> 
> On 04/03/2014 03:52 AM, Peter Chen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Peter,
> >>
> >> On 04/02/2014 10:47 AM, Peter Chen wrote:
> >>> We have historic problem that the gadget will not work if the gadget
> >>> is build-in and the udc driver is defered probe due to some
> >>> resources are not ready. Below links are related to this problem.
> >>>
> >>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=139380872501745&w=2
> >>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=137991612311893&w=2
> >>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=137706435611447&w=2
> >>>
> >>> This patch saves pointer of usb_gadget_driver when the udc is not
> >>> ready, and redo usb_gadget_probe_driver when the udc is ready This
> >>> method may not be good enough, but we need to find a way to fix this
> >>> problem, so I post this RFC to see if to see comments, someone may
> >>> have a better solution:)
> >>>
> >>
> >> I have sent patch fixing this problem few weeks ago:
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg102795.html
> >>
> >
> > Our idea is the same, but your patch is better than me.
> > Felipe queued this patch or not?
> >
> > If it is not, you may need to send v2 that return -ENODEV for not find
> > udc to see if he has further comments, let's try to fix this problem
> > at mainline asap.
> >
> 
> Returning -ENODEV doesn't make sense. There is no way to find out if any
> UDC driver is present in system before it will be registered. So you
> can't know, when you should return -ENODEV.
> 
> If we really want to return -ENODEV, it will need to modify all UDC
> drivers. They can notify udc-core before returning -EPROBE_DEFER that
> they will register in the future, so gadget drivers can be added to
> driver_list. In another case we can return -ENODEV.
> 

Sorry, I did not check it carefully that some gadget drivers have compared
usb_composite_probe return value.

Peter


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