Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] drm: Add Generic USB Display driver

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Den 02.06.2020 20.38, skrev Peter Stuge:
> Alan Stern wrote:
>>>> A gadget driver can STALL in response to a control-OUT data packet,
>>>> but only before it has seen the packet.
>>>
>>> How can it do that for OUT, and IN if possible there too?
>>
>> In the way described just above: The gadget driver's SETUP handler tells 
>> the UDC to stall the data packet.
>>
>>> Is it related to f->setup() returning < 0 ?
>>
>> Yes; the composite core interprets such a value as meaning to STALL 
>> endpoint 0.
> 
> Thanks a lot for confirming this.
> 
> 
>>> The spec also allows NAK, but the gadget code seems to not (need to?)
>>> explicitly support that. Can you comment on this as well?
>>
>> If the gadget driver doesn't submit a usb_request then the UDC will 
>> reply with NAK.
> 
> And thanks for this as well.
> 
> 
>>> a status request so I can know the result of the operation the device has
>>> performed.
> ..
>> There are two reasonable approaches you could use.  One is to have a 
>> vendor-specific control request to get the result of the preceding 
>> operation.
> ..
>> The other approach is to send the status data over a bulk-IN endpoint.
> 
> I've tried to explain a third approach, which I think fits well because the
> status is only a "Ready" flag - ie. a memory barrier or flow control,
> to make the host not send data OUT.
> 
> I'm proposing that the gadget should NAK on data OUT when it isn't Ready, and
> that the host driver shouldn't query status but simply send data when it has.
> 
> Per Alans description the NAK happens automatically if the gadget driver has
> no usb_request pending while it is processing previously received data.
> 
> On the host that NAK makes the host controller retry automatically until
> transfer success, timeout or fatal error.
> 
> 
>> It would have to be formatted in such a way that the host could 
>> recognize it as a status packet and not some other sort of data packet.
> 
> For host notification of status changes other than Ready I really like
> such an IN endpoint, but preferably an interrupt endpoint.
> 
> To avoid the formatting problem each data packet could be one full status
> message. That way the host would always receive a known data structure.
> Interrupt packets can be max 64 byte. Noralf, do you think that's enough
> for everyone in the first version?
> 

I'm going through some treatment that turned out to be worse than
expected, so sadly I have to put this project on hold until my body
recovers.

Noralf.



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