Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] usb: Link USB devices with their USB Type-C partner counterparts

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Hi Heikki,

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 6:32 AM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Benson,
>
> RFC for now. I can't test these properly. If you guys could take over
> this, I would much appreciated. I hope this is at least close to your
> proposal.

Much appreciated for the quick turnaround. Yes, I can test this on our
systems that have subsystem linking enabled. (speaking of which, would
be interested in getting a sample of one of our Chromebook systems
that fully implement the typec subsystem linking)?

>
> With this (or something like it) you should be able to get
> notification about USB connections and disconnections to your port
> driver by implementing the new "attach" and "deattach" callbacks in
> struct typec_partner_desc. The typec partner devices will also have
> symlinks to the enumerated USB devices and vise versa.
>

Got it, i'll modify the cros_ec_typec driver to implement these
callbacks, and look for the new symlinks.


> I took a little shortcut and did not implement a proper device list.
> Instead there is now only a member for the USB2 device and a member
> for the USB3 device in struct typec_port, so with this only USB is
> supported. But the API does not deal with struct usb_device, so
> extending this to support other devices (TBT, Displayport, etc.) by
> adding the actual device list should be fairly easy.

Excellent! Thank you.

Benson

>
> thanks,
>
> Heikki Krogerus (2):
>   usb: typec: Link enumerated USB devices with Type-C partner
>   usb: Inform the USB Type-C class about enumerated devices
>
>  drivers/usb/core/hub.c          |   4 ++
>  drivers/usb/core/hub.h          |   3 +
>  drivers/usb/core/port.c         |  19 +++++-
>  drivers/usb/typec/class.c       | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/usb/typec/class.h       |  16 +++++
>  drivers/usb/typec/port-mapper.c |   9 ++-
>  include/linux/usb/typec.h       |  37 +++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.40.1
>


--
Benson Leung
Staff Software Engineer
Chrome OS Kernel
Google Inc.
bleung@xxxxxxxxxx
Chromium OS Project
bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx




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