Re: [PATCHv3] HID: i2c-hid: Add sleep between POWER ON and RESET

From: Benjamin Tissoires
Date: Fri Jan 06 2017 - 17:19:34 EST


On Jan 07 2017 or thereabouts, Brendan McGrath wrote:
> Support for the Asus Touchpad was recently added. It turns out this
> device can fail initialisation (and become unusable) when the RESET
> command is sent too soon after the POWER ON command.
>
> Unfortunately the i2c-hid specification does not specify the need for
> a delay between these two commands. But it was discovered the Windows
> driver has a 1ms delay.
>
> As a result, this patch modifies the i2c-hid module to add a sleep
> inbetween the POWER ON and RESET commands which lasts between 1ms and 5ms.
>
> See https://github.com/vlasenko/hid-asus-dkms/issues/24 for further
> details.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan McGrath <redmcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - added comments to explain the reason for the sleep
>

Looks good now, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Benjamin

> drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c b/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c
> index 844662c..d5288f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c
> @@ -426,6 +426,15 @@ static int i2c_hid_hwreset(struct i2c_client *client)
> if (ret)
> goto out_unlock;
>
> + /*
> + * The HID over I2C specification states that if a DEVICE needs time
> + * after the PWR_ON request, it should utilise CLOCK stretching.
> + * However, it has been observered that the Windows driver provides a
> + * 1ms sleep between the PWR_ON and RESET requests and that some devices
> + * rely on this.
> + */
> + usleep_range(1000, 5000);
> +
> i2c_hid_dbg(ihid, "resetting...\n");
>
> ret = i2c_hid_command(client, &hid_reset_cmd, NULL, 0);
> --
> 2.7.4
>