Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] usb: gadget: introduce support for sg lists

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:38:48AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> > > 255 requests including 255 additional interrupts to notify about the
> > > completion and not to forget the complete callbacks to the gadget.
> > 
> > of course not, if no_interrupt is set, it means gadget driver will not
> > receive the interrupt.
> 
> What you wrote isn't grammatically clear, and it's hard to tell exactly
> what you meant here.  Gadget drivers do not receive interrupts in any
> case, only UDC drivers do.  Gadget drivers _do_ receive completion
> calls, and they are supposed to receive those calls regardless of
> whether no_interrupt is set.  The purpose of no_interrupt is to tell
> the UDC driver that a hardware IRQ isn't needed.

yeah, let me rephrase:

if no_interrupt is set, then we can mask the completion IRQ from the
UDC.

> >  BTW, IOC should be set on our driver when
> > no_interrupt is cleared. Currently we are bypassing that flag and
> > interrupting always on the last request. That's a mis-use the gadget
> > framework ;-)
> 
> no_interrupt is just a hint to the UDC driver.  It's okay for the 
> driver to ignore it and tell the hardware to interrupt when the request 
> is complete.

the mis-use is that we mask IRQs even though gadget driver wants a
completion.

-- 
balbi

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