greybus: es1-ap-usb: document the lack of callback for the outgoing bulk urbs

We don't need a callback for bulk out urbs to do anything except put the
urb back in the pool.  Document why we do this and what is involved.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman 2014-10-28 18:20:24 +08:00
parent cea54c12f7
commit f9ab34c2bf

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@ -418,6 +418,31 @@ static void cport_out_callback(struct urb *urb)
/* If urb is not NULL, then we need to free this urb */
usb_free_urb(urb);
/*
* Yes, you are right, we aren't telling anyone that the urb finished.
* "That's crazy! How does this all even work?" you might be saying.
* The "magic" is the idea that greybus works on the "operation" level,
* not the "send a buffer" level. All operations are "round-trip" with
* a response from the device that the operation finished, or it will
* time out. Because of that, we don't care that this urb finished, or
* failed, or did anything else, as higher levels of the protocol stack
* will handle completions and timeouts and the rest.
*
* This protocol is "needed" due to some hardware restrictions on the
* current generation of Unipro controllers. Think about it for a
* minute, this is a USB driver, talking to a Unipro bridge, impediance
* mismatch is huge, yet the Unipro controller are even more
* underpowered than this little USB controller. We rely on the round
* trip to keep stalls in the Unipro controllers from happening so that
* we can keep data flowing properly, no matter how slow it might be.
*
* Once again, a wonderful bus protocol cut down in its prime by a naive
* controller chip. We dream of the day we have a "real" HCD for
* Unipro. Until then, we suck it up and make the hardware work, as
* that's the job of the firmware and kernel.
* </rant>
*/
}
/*