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

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 08:34:33 EST



Hi,

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > 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.

I'm entirely sure about this. I think it's not too far-fetched to think
that, eventually, we will need an actual stack exposed for the CC pin.

> They can easily deal with sysfs attributes.

right

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balbi

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