Re: [PATCH v2] usb: typec: ucsi_ccg: Add retry mechanism in ccg_read

From: Jon Hunter

Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 11:08:12 EST



On 16/09/2026 07:18, Wayne Chang wrote:
CCG4 firmware occasionally fails to respond to I2C read requests,
especially when reading cci and intr_reg from the ISR path. In these
cases, i2c_transfer() returns -EREMOTEIO.

The CCG4 is EOL, and Infineon no longer supports firmware updates, so
a software workaround is necessary.

Attempt the read up to CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES (4) times in total when
-EREMOTEIO is returned, sleeping ~1 ms via fsleep() between attempts.
This allows recovery from transient I2C failures without affecting
other error paths.

The sleep is safe because ccg_read() is called both from process
context and from ccg_irq_handler(), which runs in threaded IRQ
context (registered via request_threaded_irq() with a NULL hard-IRQ
handler), so sleeping is allowed in both cases.

Fixes: 247c554a14aa ("usb: typec: ucsi: add support for Cypress CCGx")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wayne Chang <waynec@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2: Per Heikki's review:
- Fix off-by-one: CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES was 3 but the loop ran 4 times
(retry_count <= CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES). Changed the macro to 4 (the
actual total attempt count) and the loop condition to
retry_count < CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES, so the name and the loop bound
now agree. Adjusted the "skip the sleep on the last attempt" check
to retry_count == CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES - 1 to match.
- Use fsleep(1000) instead of usleep_range(1000, 2000).
- Reworded the commit message to say "up to CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES (4)
times in total" instead of the ambiguous "up to three times (four
attempts total)" that prompted the off-by-one question.

drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c
index 91c2958a708c..4b6c53d2a998 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c
@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ struct version_format {
#define NVIDIA_FTB_DP_OFFSET (2)
#define NVIDIA_FTB_DBG_OFFSET (3)
+#define CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES 4
+
struct version_info {
struct version_format base;
struct version_format app;
@@ -255,6 +257,7 @@ static int ccg_read(struct ucsi_ccg *uc, u16 rab, u8 *data, u32 len)
};
u32 rlen, rem_len = len, max_read_len = len;
int status;
+ int retry_count;
/* check any max_read_len limitation on i2c adapter */
if (quirks && quirks->max_read_len)
@@ -266,7 +269,17 @@ static int ccg_read(struct ucsi_ccg *uc, u16 rab, u8 *data, u32 len)
rlen = min_t(u16, rem_len, max_read_len);
msgs[1].len = rlen;
put_unaligned_le16(rab, buf);
- status = i2c_transfer(client->adapter, msgs, ARRAY_SIZE(msgs));
+
+ for (retry_count = 0; retry_count < CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES; retry_count++) {
+ status = i2c_transfer(client->adapter, msgs, ARRAY_SIZE(msgs));
+
+ /* Only retry on -EREMOTEIO, and not after the last attempt */
+ if (status != -EREMOTEIO || retry_count == CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES - 1)
+ break;
+
+ fsleep(1000);
+ }
+
if (status < 0) {
dev_err(uc->dev, "i2c_transfer failed %d\n", status);
pm_runtime_put_sync(uc->dev);

I was wondering if we could avoid the extra check inside the loop for
'CCG_READ_MAX_RETRIES - 1' but this does avoid an addition sleep. So ...

Reviewed-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
Jon

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