Re: [PATCH 01/13] usb: define a generic USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT macro

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 04:22:12PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> > Every USB Host controller should use this new
> > macro to define for how long resume signalling
> > should be driven on the bus.
> > 
> > Currently, almost every single USB controller
> > is using a 20ms timeout for resume signalling.
> > 
> > That's problematic for two reasons:
> > 
> > a) sometimes that 20ms timer expires a little
> > before 20ms, which makes us fail certification
> > 
> > b) some (many) devices actually need more than
> > 20ms resume signalling.
> > 
> > Sure, in case of (b) we can state that the device
> > is against the USB spec, but the fact is that
> > we have no control over which device the certification
> > lab will use. We also have no control over which host
> > they will use. Most likely they'll be using a Windows
> > PC which, again, we have no control over how that
> > USB stack is written and how long resume signalling
> > they are using.
> > 
> > At the end of the day, we must make sure Linux passes
> > electrical compliance when working as Host or as Device
> > and currently we don't pass compliance as host because
> > we're driving resume signallig for exactly 20ms and
> > that confuses certification test setup resulting in
> > Certification failure.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/usb.h | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
> > index f89c24a03bd9..1dd89f0db344 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/usb.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/usb.h
> > @@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ void usb_put_intf(struct usb_interface *intf);
> >  #define USB_MAXINTERFACES	32
> >  #define USB_MAXIADS		(USB_MAXINTERFACES/2)
> >  
> > +/* USB Resume Timer */
> > +#define USB_RESUME_TIMEOUT	40 /* ms */
> > +
> 
> How about adding a comment explaining briefly why this value is larger
> than 20 ms?

will do, but wait for other comments before resending.

-- 
balbi

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