Re: [RFC PATCH 06/14] usb: core: hcd: Introduce USB HCD APIs for interrupter management

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Dec 28 2022 - 10:16:47 EST


On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 09:59:03AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
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> On 27.12.22 22:07, Wesley Cheng wrote:
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> > Hmmm...maybe I should change the name of the API then to avoid the confusion.  Yes, usb_hcd_flush_endpoint() does ensure that URBs submitted to the EP are stopped.  However, with this offloading concept, we aren't actually submitting URBs from the main processor, so the ep->urb_list will be empty.
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> > This means the usb_hcd_flush_endpoint() API won't actually do anything.  What we need is to ensure that we send a XHCI stop ep command to the controller.
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> That is a concept specific to XHCI, yet you are adding a generic
> API. The namin should reflect that. usb_quiesce_endpoint() ?

Or even xhci_send_stop_ep_cmd(), which is what the routine is intended
to do.

Alan Stern