Re: [RFC PATCH 06/22] thunderbolt: Add support for lane bonding

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Wed Oct 02 2019 - 10:30:27 EST


On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:21:06PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 01.10.2019, 15:53 +0300 schrieb Mika Westerberg:
> > >
> > > Are we only going to be allowed to "bond" two links together? Or will
> > > we be doing more than 2 in the future? If more, then we might want to
> > > think of a different way to specify these...
> >
> > AFAICT only two lanes are available in USB4. This goes over USB type-C
> > using the two lanes there.
> >
> > Of course I don't know if in future there will be USB4 1.1 or something
> > that adds more lanes so if you think there is a better way to specify
> > these, I'm happy to implement that instead :)
>
> If this ever can become asymmetric this interface is going to turn
> around and bite.

Don't think it can be asymmetric but I'm open to all ideas how to make
it more flexible :-)