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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Prashant Malani <pmalani@chromium.org>,
	Benson Leung <bleung@google.com>,
	Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@diasemi.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@google.com>,
	Jack Pham <jackp@codeaurora.org>,
	"Gopal, Saranya" <saranya.gopal@intel.com>,
	"Regupathy, Rajaram" <rajaram.regupathy@intel.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] USB Power Delivery character device interface
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:06:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXgZdFV2yTXAKxE9@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211026143352.78387-1-heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:33:48PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the proposal for USB PD character devices that we could use to
> communicate USB PD messages directly with the USB PD capable partners,
> ports and cable plugs from user space. Originally I proposed this idea
> here as a better way to get the PDOs from the partners (and ports and
> plugs): https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/8/331

You should put the info there (and please use lore.kernel.org in the
future, not lkml.org as we have no control over that site), into this
0/X message as I have no idea _why_ you need a char device and why the
sysfs interface will not work.

So, why not sysfs?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26 14:33 [RFC PATCH 0/4] USB Power Delivery character device interface Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-26 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] usb: pd: uapi header split Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-26 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] usb: typec: Character device for USB Power Delivery devices Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-26 15:08   ` Greg KH
2021-10-28  1:03   ` Prashant Malani
2021-10-28  7:36     ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-11-09  0:27       ` Prashant Malani
2021-10-26 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] usb: typec: ucsi: Add support for PD cdev Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-27  1:00   ` Jack Pham
2021-10-27 11:10     ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-26 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] tools: usb: Hideous test tool for USB PD char device Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-26 15:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-10-27 11:02   ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] USB Power Delivery character device interface Heikki Krogerus
2021-10-27 12:53     ` Greg KH
2021-10-28  7:17       ` Heikki Krogerus

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