linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] PCI: Relabel JHL6540 on Lenovo X1 Carbon 7,8

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:47:07 -0600
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
 Esther Shimanovich <eshimanovich@...omium.org>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
 linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] PCI: Relabel JHL6540 on Lenovo X1 Carbon 7,8

On 1/18/2024 00:00, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> Before my patch, you see that the JHL6540 controller is inaccurately
>> labeled “removable”:
>> $ udevadm info -a -p /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:05:00.0 | grep -e
>> {removable} -e {device} -e {vendor} -e looking
>>    looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.4/0000:05:00.0':
>>      ATTR{device}=="0x15d3"
>>      ATTR{removable}=="removable"
>>      ATTR{vendor}=="0x8086"
> 
> This is actually accurate. The Thunderbolt controller is itself
> hot-removable and that BTW happens to be hot-removed when fwupd applies
> firmware upgrades to the device.

Depending on the consumers of this removable attribute I wonder if we 
need to a new ATTR of "external" instead of overloading "removable".