Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] dt-bindings: usb: document aspeed vhub device ID/string properties
From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-03-31 16:21:24
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:14 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 13:23 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:quoted
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:16:32PM -0700, rentao.bupt@gmail.com wrote:quoted
From: Tao Ren <redacted> Update device tree binding document for aspeed vhub's device IDs and string properties. Signed-off-by: Tao Ren <redacted> --- No change in v2: - the patch is added into the series since v2. .../bindings/usb/aspeed,usb-vhub.yaml | 68 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/aspeed,usb-vhub.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/aspeed,usb-vhub.yaml index 06399ba0d9e4..5b2e8d867219 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/aspeed,usb-vhub.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/aspeed,usb-vhub.yaml@@ -52,6 +52,59 @@ properties: minimum: 1 maximum: 21 + vhub-vendor-id: + description: vhub Vendor ID + allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 + - maximum: 65535 + + vhub-product-id: + description: vhub Product ID + allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 + - maximum: 65535There's already standard 'vendor-id' and 'device-id' properties. Use those.So yes and no... I don't fundamentally object but keep in mind that traditionally, the properties are about matching with a physical hardware. In this case however, we are describing a virtual piece of HW and so those IDs are going to be picked up to be exposed as the USB vendor/device of the vhub on the USB bus. Not necessarily an issue but it's more "configuration" than "matching" and as such, it might make sense to expose that with a prefix, though I would prefer something like usb-vendor-id or usb,vendor-id...
For FDT uses, it's pretty much been configuration. It's mostly been for PCI that I've seen these properties used.
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+ + vhub-device-revision:Specific to USB, not vhub.Same as the above.quoted
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+ description: vhub Device Revision in binary-coded decimal + allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32 + - maximum: 65535 + + vhub-strings: + type: object + + properties: + '#address-cells': + const: 1 + + '#size-cells': + const: 0 + + patternProperties: + '^string@[0-9a-f]+$': + type: object + description: string descriptors of the specific language + + properties: + reg: + maxItems: 1 + description: 16-bit Language Identifier defined by USB-IF + + manufacturer: + description: vhub manufacturer + allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string + + product: + description: vhub product name + allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string + + serial-number: + description: vhub device serial number + allOf: + - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/stringFor all of this, it's USB specific, not vhub specific. I'm not sure this is the right approach. It might be better to just define properties which are just raw USB descriptors rather than inventing some DT format that then has to be converted into USB descriptors.Raw blob in the DT is rather annoying and leads to hard to parse stuff for both humans and scripts. The main strenght of the DT is it's easy to read and manipulate.
True, and I'd certainly agree when we're talking about some vendor specific blob. but there's already code/tools to parse USB descriptors.
Also not the entire descriptor is configurable this way. That said, it could be that using the DT for the above is overkill and instead, we should consider a configfs like the rest of USB gadget. Though it isn't obvious how to do that, the current gadget stuff doesn't really "fit" what we need here.
Surely the descriptor building code can be shared at a minimum. Regardless of whether gadget configfs fits, usually it is pretty clear whether something belongs in DT or userspace. That should be decided first.
Maybe we could expose the port as UDCs but not actually expose them on the bus until the hub is "activated" via a special configfs entry...
If control of the hub is done by userspace, I'd think configuration should be there too. Rob _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel