Re: [PATCHv13 2/3] usb: USB Type-C connector class

From	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCHv13 2/3] usb: USB Type-C connector class
Date	2016-12-15 13:20 +0100
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On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 13:50 +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:

> 1) Should we use "source" and "sink" instead of "device" and "host"
> with the prefer_role attribute after all? I was uncomfortable with
> that when we talked about it last time because the terms kept changing
> with every new Type-C specification version. But I guess "source" and
> "sink" would make sense in the end. This has been requested by several
> guys now.
> 
> 2) Can we change the way we list the supported roles? They are now
> comma separated, but can we use new line instead:
> 
>         % cat supported_data_roles
>         host
>         device
>         %
> 
> 3) Instead of the "supports_usb_power_delivery" attribute file which
> we have for the ports and partners, it seem it would be more
> interesting to know the supported USB Power Delivery Specification
> version for some, and also USB Type-C Specification version in
> separate attribute file. So basically we would have
> "usb_power_delivery_version" and "usb_typec_version" attributes
> instead or "supports_usb_power_delivery".
> 
> 
> So would these changes be OK still at this point to everybody?

Hi,

they are all right with me.

	Regards
		Oliver

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Re: [PATCHv13 2/3] usb: USB Type-C connector class Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-12-15 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv13 2/3] usb: USB Type-C connector class Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-12-15 13:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv13 2/3] usb: USB Type-C connector class Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-12-15 16:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: USB Type-C connector class Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> - 2016-12-20 15:30 +0100

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