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Message-ID: <20201118183929.GA3652649@google.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:39:29 -0800
From: Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] usb: typec: Product Type time
Hi Heikki,
Thanks for developing these patches :)
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 06:00:56PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Hi Prashant,
>
> The original discussion [1].
>
> This proposal is in practice a compromise. I came to the conclusion
> that we probable should expose the product type separately after all.
> The reason for that is because we may in some cases actually know the
> product type even when we don't have access to the Discover Identity
> response. UCSI for example in practice gives us at least the cable
> product type even though it does not let us know the response to the
> Discover Identity command.
>
> So my proposal here is that we add an attribute for the product type
> itself, showing the product type as a string. Then we also add the
> attribute for the product type specific VDOs which we place under the
> identity directory more or less the way you originally proposed.
Sounds good to me.
Best regards,
-Prashant
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