On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Jun Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guenter > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:23 AM >> To: Jun Li <[email protected]> >> Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>; Felipe Balbi >> <[email protected]>; Chandra Sekhar Anagani >> <[email protected]>; Bruce Ashfield >> <[email protected]>; Bin Gao <[email protected]>; Pranav Tipnis >> <[email protected]>; Heikki Krogerus >> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; linux- >> [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] usb: typec: USB Type-C Port Manager (tcpm) >> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Jun Li <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Guenter, >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-usb- >> >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Guenter Roeck >> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 5:11 AM >> >> To: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]> >> >> Cc: Chandra Sekhar Anagani <[email protected]>; Bruce >> >> Ashfield <[email protected]>; Bin Gao <[email protected]>; >> >> Pranav Tipnis <[email protected]>; Heikki Krogerus >> >> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; >> >> linux- [email protected]; Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] usb: typec: USB Type-C Port Manager >> >> (tcpm) >> >> >> >> This driver implements the USB Type-C Power Delivery state machine >> >> for both source and sink ports. Alternate mode support is not fully >> >> implemented. >> >> >> >> The driver attaches to the USB Type-C class code implemented in the >> >> following patches. >> >> >> >> usb: typec: add driver for Intel Whiskey Cove PMIC USB Type-C PHY >> >> usb: USB Type-C connector class >> >> >> >> This driver only implements the state machine. Lower level drivers >> >> are responsible for >> >> - Reporting VBUS status and activating VBUS >> >> - Setting CC lines and providing CC line status >> >> - Setting line polarity >> >> - Activating and deactivating VCONN >> >> - Setting the current limit >> >> - Activating and deactivating PD message transfers >> >> - Sending and receiving PD messages >> >> >> >> The driver provides both a functional API as well as callbacks for >> >> lower level drivers. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> >> >> --- >> > >> > A specific question, if power sink wants to request a new power level >> > after SNK_READY, how to handle it with this tcpm? >> > >> >> So far I have considered the required power level to be static, based on >> our curent implementations. That should be easy to change, though, with an >> additional API function, to be called from a low level driver. >> Do you have that requirement, and would such a function meet your needs ? >> > > So you are going to make port->tcpc->config to be dynamic to meet my need? > What would that help ? How would tcpm get informed that the power requirements changed without an API function telling it that power requirements changed ?
Guenter
