Re: musb-hdrc: "Vbus off, timeout 1100 msec" message does not belong in sysfs

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Mon Jul 13 2015 - 16:31:38 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 09:17:39AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 07/09/2015 11:46 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Thu 2015-07-09 23:39:22, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> Hi!
>
> Hi,
>
> >>
> >> sysfs should contain one value per file. This one has at least two,
> >> with nice english sentence as a bonus.
> >>
> >> root@n900:/sys/devices/platform/68000000.ocp/480ab000.usb_otg_hs/musb-hdrc.0.auto#
> >> cat vbus
> >> Vbus off, timeout 1100 msec
> >>
> >> :-(.
> >
> > Plus, documentation for this is nowhere to be seen:
> >
> > pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-n900$ grep -ri musb Documentation/ABI/
> > pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-n900$
>
> that is a shame indeed. It is part of the driver since TUSB support was
> merged via commit 550a7375f ("USB: Add MUSB and TUSB support") about 7
> years ago.
> The parameter expects the timeout values which is used to poll the port
> for mode changes (host/device mode) since it can not be detected on its
> own.
> Felipe knows best if it is better to document it or remove it. I can't
> remember that I needed it on am335x.

N900's usersland relies on it, IIRC. But it could be that it was used
just for testing. I'm not entirely sure.

--
balbi

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