linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: Update active state

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Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:57:04 -0800
From:   Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
To:     Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        bleung@...omium.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: Update active state

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:23 AM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > It's not be possible to enter a mode with tcpm.c unless there is
> > a driver for the altmode currently. Something has to take care of the
> > altmode, and if that something is not the altmode driver it would need
> > to be the user space. Right now we don't have an interface for that.
> >
> > In any case, if there's no driver for the altmode, then the partner
> > altmode "active" file should not be visible.
>
> I meant read-only :-).

Got it. Thank you for explaining this to me :)

I will send out a v2 soon.

BR,

-Prashant