> >>> On most platforms, there is only one device controller available. > >>> In this case, we desn't care the UDC's name. So let's ignore the > >>> name by setting 'UDC' to 'any'. > >> > >> Hmm libubsgx allows to do this for a very long time. You simply pass > >> NULL instead of pointer to usbg_udc. > >> > >> It is also possible to do this from command line, just simply: > >> > >> $ echo `ls -1 /sys/class/udc | head -n 1` > UDC > >> > >> So if we can easily do this from user space what's the benefit of adding > >> this special "any" keyword to kernel? > >> > > Well, it is just for *easy to use*. Looking up /sys/class/udc mostly > > can be skipped. The UDC core support this convenience behavior, > > so why don't we export it with a little change? > > > > Well, I'm not sure if any configfs interface has been proposed as easy > to use from cmd line. I think they all has been proposed as *usable* > from cmd line but not necessarily *easy to use*. > > That's why most of configfs clients has some support in userspace. For > example for target there is a taget-cli and for usb gadget we have > libusbg/libusbgx. > Glade to know this tool, it is much more easy to use than interact with sysfs. I'd like use it. Just see you are the main contributor of this project. :) > So the functionality which you proposed here is not only already > implemented in libusbgx but also can be easily achieved from cmd line > like I showed above. > > In addition this patch will break existing userspace tools (at least > libusbgx for sure) as it assumes that: > > cat UDC > > should return an empty string or an valid UDC name which can be found > inside /sys/class/udc. If so, this is not good. > >> is really a problem. Personally I'm quite used to situation in which I > >> have to turn the light off before turning it on once again;) > >> > > That is not a problem. But just avoid pseudo 'busy'. If gadget is not > > bind, it is free to reconfigure it. So seem no need block re-configuration. > > > > What do you mean pseudo 'busy'? If we do: > > echo <udc-name> > UDC > Sorry, please ignore this. I find if no UDC available, the config will be queued to a list, and will bind it when a UDC module install. So it is really busy. > then gadget should be really bound to some udc and potentially really busy. > > > In a word, this patch is just an improvement, not to fix any issues or > > add new function. > > So it doesn't add any new functionality and breaks existing user space > tools. > Ok, regarding there is a better tool, this change doesn't make much sense. So just abandon it. > Cheers, > -- > Krzysztof Opasiak > Samsung R&D Institute Poland > Samsung Electronics Best Regards, Du, Changbin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
