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SubjectRe: [PATCH stable 5.4] usb: host: xhci-plat: add wakeup entry at sysfs
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On 2/2/23 23:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 03:19:08PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 2/1/23 10:16, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 09:44:04AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> From: Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>
>>>>
>>>> commit 4bb4fc0dbfa23acab9b762949b91ffd52106fe4b upstream
>>>>
>>>> With this change, there will be a wakeup entry at /sys/../power/wakeup,
>>>> and the user could use this entry to choose whether enable xhci wakeup
>>>> features (wake up system from suspend) or not.
>>>>
>>>> Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918131752.16488-6-mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com
>>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c | 2 +-
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> Why is this new feature needed on these older kernels? What does it fix
>>> that is broken?
>>
>> It fixes the inability to make the XHCI controller a wake-up device since
>> there is no /sys/*/*xhci/power/wakeup sysfs entry to manipulate unless this
>> patch is applied.
>
> But that is a new feature, not a bugfix.

Support for wake-up was already there in the xhci driver, just there was
no way to activate it from user-space, that seems like a fix to me.

>
> What systems need this for these older kernels that will actually update
> to them in order to pick up this change?

Some NXP systems required that, and all of our ARCH_BRCMSTB SoCs also
have that capability, I see you applied those patches, thanks!
--
Florian

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