From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Felipe Balbi <balbif@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>,
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:36:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455705412.7626.18.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuwrsk7w.fsf@ti.com>
On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 12:29 +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 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:
> >> > 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
That is the discussion we must have.
> 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.
I doubt that, because the main user is likely to be udev scripts.
They can easily deal with sysfs attributes.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-09 17:01 [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-09 17:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] usb: USB Type-C Connector Class Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-09 18:20 ` Greg KH
2016-02-10 10:38 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-10 17:26 ` Greg KH
2016-02-11 14:07 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-10 10:49 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-10 11:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-10 11:11 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-10 11:14 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-10 11:23 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-15 15:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-11 8:55 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-11 9:08 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-11 14:51 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-11 14:36 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-11 14:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-17 14:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 8:47 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 9:21 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 13:09 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 9:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 13:25 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 13:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 15:13 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-26 13:09 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-09 17:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] usb: type-c: USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-09 18:21 ` Greg KH
2016-02-10 10:30 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-10 17:20 ` Greg KH
2016-02-11 13:50 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-15 15:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-16 9:22 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-16 13:39 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-17 7:58 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-17 9:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-17 10:29 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-17 10:36 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2016-02-17 11:11 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-17 13:36 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-17 14:28 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 9:07 ` Peter Chen
2016-02-18 10:44 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 10:37 ` Rajaram R
2016-02-18 10:47 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 11:06 ` Rajaram R
2016-02-17 13:34 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-17 13:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 7:08 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-18 10:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 10:30 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-18 10:40 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 9:29 ` Peter Chen
2016-02-18 9:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-10 11:19 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-10 12:04 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-10 11:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-10 13:21 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-10 14:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-10 15:11 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-02-11 8:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-11 8:59 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-02-10 14:15 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-10 14:24 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-10 15:08 ` Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <CAHp75VfmGsskf7Cmni3b4=tCbkPsR8d3jPYiv93Lm6DM9gq1-g@mail.gmail.com>
2016-02-11 8:13 ` Fwd: " Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-11 14:10 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-10 13:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-02-11 14:08 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-09 17:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] usb: type-c: UCSI ACPI driver Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-09 18:22 ` Greg KH
2016-02-10 10:23 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-17 18:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] usb: USB Type-C Class and driver for UCSI Oliver Neukum
2016-02-18 9:21 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-17 19:34 ` Rajaram R
2016-02-18 11:05 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-02-18 11:15 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-05-05 3:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-05-06 6:50 ` Felipe Balbi
2016-05-06 8:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-05-06 8:29 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-05-06 14:10 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-05-06 8:23 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-05-06 8:08 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-05-06 14:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-05-11 3:14 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-05-11 9:40 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-05-11 14:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-05-13 14:23 ` Heikki Krogerus
2016-05-13 17:48 ` Guenter Roeck
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