Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1336227

Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface

From Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface
Date 2016-02-17 11:40 +0100
Message-ID <r37Gy-55s-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References (6 earlier) <r2tpL-2SR-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <r2K7f-5XK-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <r2OaS-4Q-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <r35bI-3gB-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <r36hs-4dm-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

Hi,

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 09:58 +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:39:47PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 11:22 +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
>> > > > That question has not been answered. It would be awkward for the OS
>> > > > to find itself in the slave role, which it is ill equipped for. So
>> > > > the data role should be switched before the new device is announced
>> > > > to user space. How is that handled?
>> > > 
>> > > In the class driver, once we add support for preselecting the role,
>> > > when the connection happens we compare the initial role to the
>> > > preselected one and execute swap if it differs. Only after that we
>> > > notify userspace.
>> > 
>> > Yes, but we need an API. We can't keep adding to it. So if that
>> > is to be supported, it needs to be defined now.
>> 
>> When you say API, do you mean the API the class provides to the
>> drivers? Or did you mean ABI which would be the sysfs in this case?
>
> The API to user space. That is the point. We cannot break user space.
> Once this sysfs API is upstream we are stuck with it.

yeah, in fact I have been wondering if sysfs is the best interface to
userspace. I talked with Heikki a few days back about this; I was
wondering if something like what the NFC folks did with netlink would be
better here.

-- 
balbi

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

[PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-09 18:10 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-09 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-09 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-10 11:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-10 18:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 15:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-15 16:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-16 10:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-16 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-17 09:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-17 10:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 11:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-17 11:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-17 12:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> - 2016-02-17 14:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-17 15:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 10:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-18 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Rajaram R <rajaram.officemail@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-18 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Rajaram R <rajaram.officemail@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 12:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> - 2016-02-17 14:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-17 15:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 08:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-18 11:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-18 11:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 10:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-18 10:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-10 12:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-10 13:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 13:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-10 14:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 15:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2016-02-10 16:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-11 09:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2016-02-11 10:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-10 15:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 15:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> - 2016-02-10 16:20 +0100
            Fwd: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-11 09:20 +0100
              Re: Fwd: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System  Software Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-10 14:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software  Interface Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 15:10 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] usb: type-c: UCSI ACPI driver Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-09 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] usb: type-c: UCSI ACPI driver Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-09 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] usb: type-c: UCSI ACPI driver Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-10 11:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-17 20:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-18 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Rajaram R <rajaram.officemail@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-18 12:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-18 12:20 +0100

csiph-web