Re: How to detect connection on USB device port?

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Hi,

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Ondrej Wisniewski
<ondrej.wisniewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so if I understand this correctly, there is no possibility to detect the
> connection state today?
> Thanks for taking up the discussion. It would be very handy to have this
> feature.

Please have a look at the "usb_moded".
https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-middleware/usb_moded

"Usb_moded is a relatively simple daemon which tracks the
usb cable connection status and activates a certain USB
profile based on that."

Warm Regards,
Maxin B. John

>
>
> On 12/05/2011 05:19 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Ondrej Wisniewski wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am using the /g_file_storage/gadget driver. I was wondering if it is
>>> possible to detect if a cable (and USB host) is connected to the USB
>>> device port.
>>>
>>> Looks like the driver prints the following message to dmesg when the
>>> host is connected:
>>> g_file_storage gadget: full speed config #1
>>
>> This is really just a side effect.  The gadget driver itself isn't very
>> aware of when the gadget is connected to a host.  The UDC driver is
>> responsible for all that stuff.
>>
>>> But there is no message when it is disconnected. So how can I check the
>>> current status of the connection. Is there some status file in sysfs I
>>> can look at?
>>> Any other possibility?
>>
>> Felipe, Sebastian, this sounds like a good candidate for something to
>> be added to the UDC core framework.  Perhaps a pollable sysfs file
>> containing the current connection/PHY status?  The UDC driver would
>> merely have to invoke a new core routine whenever the status changed.
>>
>> Alan Stern
>>
>
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