linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] driver core: Move the "authorized" attribute from USB/Thunderbolt to core

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4iNp41mZcpzGCPR9Xty83j+abk_SOxvsx1xaQ8wALRv0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:28:36 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkelshb@...il.com>
Cc:     Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] driver core: Move the "authorized" attribute from
 USB/Thunderbolt to core

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:20 AM Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkelshb@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:05 AM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > no functional
> > changes other than value 2 being not visible to the user.
> >
>
> Are we sure we don't break any user-facing tool with it? Tools might use this to
> "remember" how the device was authorized this time.

That's why it was highlighted in the changelog. Hopefully a
Thunderbolt developer can confirm if it is a non-issue.
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt does not seem to
answer this question about whether authorized_show and
authorized_store need to be symmetric.