[Gta04-owner] Android gadget driver

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 03.08.2013 um 18:34 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:

> 
> Am 03.08.2013 um 13:28 schrieb Belisko Marek:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Oops - that is sad.
>> I've contacted John Stultz (responsible for mainlinig android at
> 
> Great!
> 
>> linaro) with question about gadget driver and he replied:
>> 
>> So for now, there isn't a replacement for the Android Gadget driver.
>> The ccg was sort of a half step that was quickly abandoned. The
>> eventual replacement should be the ConfigFS Gadget driver. Some
>> portions of which have landed upstream, but I've not yet been able to
>> research if its sufficient to replace the Android Gadget driver.
>> 
>> If you want to look into it, you can find the commit here:
>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076
>> 
>> I'm hoping to discuss this further at the Linux Plumbers Conference
>> Android Micro-conf.
>> 
>> As for Linaro Android Kernels, those should include the Android Gadget
>> driver patches.
>> 
>> Hope this helps explain things.
> 
> I have found out a little more. The original Android Gadget driver was
> contributed at 16th May 2012 to 3.5-rc2 (and some variables were
> renamed to "ccg"):
> 
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/staging/ccg/ccg.c?v=3.5
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=332bb43f7c4baea2a0dce7ae2c078c55e14d37b5
> 
> As far as I can see, in Linux 3.6 there were only minor changes.
> 
> In 3.7 they started to rework things up to 3.9. But work stalled at
> 22th Oct. And in 3.10 it was removed completely as said above...
> 
> I have no problem with using the /sys interface and as long as Replicant
> wants to control it through /sys, we need to have a driver that supports /sys...
> 
> So the best approach appears to me to merge the ccg from 3.5 or 3.6 (before
> it was touched to add functionfs support) into our 3.11. It should suffice to
> cherry-pick 332bb43f7c4baea2a0dce7ae2c078c55e14d37b5 and fix
> issues.

There was only one minor conflict and now the code is included.
But to configure it one has to unconfigure all other gadgets, mainly
the usb-ethernet gadget.

So I have not tested the code yet. If someone wants to experiment,
please report results.

Nikolaus