Re: [PATCH v12 2/4] gadget: Support for the usb charger framework

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Tue Jun 21 2016 - 08:54:24 EST



Hi,

Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>>>> Can't you just tie a charger to a UDC and avoid the charger class
>>>>>>>> completely?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, I also hope so. But we really want something to manage the
>>>>>>> charger devices, do you have any good suggestion to avoid the 'class'
>>>>>>> but also can manage the charger devices?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> manage in what way? It seems to me that they don't need to be real
>>>>>> devices, just a handle as part of struct usb_gadget, no?
>>>>>
>>>>> Although charger device is not one real hardware device, we also use
>>>>> one 'struct device' to describe it in charger.c file. So we should
>>>>> manage the 'struct device' with one proper way.
>>>>
>>>> that's fine, but why do you think they need a struct device to start with?
>>>
>>> We can get/put usb charger and mange usb charger attributes with the
>>> device model if we use a struct device.
>>
>> We already have that as part of struct usb_udc. Why don't you just
>> create a subdirectory called charger which will hold all your
>> charger-related attributes. That directory will only be created if a
>> valid ->charger pointer exists.
>
> That means we can remove all the device and class things in charger.c
> file, right? OK, I try to do that. Thanks.

right. Keep your charger.c file, because to conditionally compile and
link that to udc-core.ko, but remove all the class initialization and
all of that extra code.

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balbi

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