linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] usb: roles: Add usb role switch notifier.

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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:23:02 -0800
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Yu Chen <chenyu56@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Jun Li <lijun.kernel@...il.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Linux USB List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] usb: roles: Add usb role switch notifier.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:11 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 22-10-2019 07:58, John Stultz wrote:
> > I'm fine to
> > continue digging and working on this approach, but I also don't want
> > to have to pollute the core code too much for this oddball hardware
> > (esp since doing the vbus control in the role-switch intermediary does
> > work ok - or at least better then this approach so far).
>
> Given the special nature of the hardware I'm fine with the OTG intermediary
> approach here. IMHO it is fine to just stick with that and to not spend
> too much time on this.

Ok.  That was what I was leaning towards as well.
Thanks again for all the review and feedback here! I really appreciate it!
-john