Re: [PATCH 0/6] usb: typec: and platform/chrome: Add PD revision numbers

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 11:04:15PM -0800, Benson Leung wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:14:00PM -0800, Benson Leung wrote:
> > > USB Power Delivery has a 3 entity handshake (port, cable, partner), and as
> > > of USB PD R3.0, each entity may independently support either Revision 2 or
> > > Revision 3 signaling and protocol. In order for userspace and the kernel
> > > to properly process the data objects received from a particular SOP*, we
> > > must know to which revision of the spec each conforms.
> > > 
> > > This series adds individual version numbers for the partner and the cable,
> > > and exposes them in the appropriate sysfs in /sys/class/typec.
> > > 
> > > I provide as a first implementation of this, platform/chrome's cros_ec_typec
> > > driver, whose underlying status messages convey the SOP and SOP' revisions
> > > already.
> > 
> > I've taken the first 3 patches in my tree now, but the last 3 (for the
> > chrome_ec_typec.c driver), they do not apply at all.
> > 
> 
> Ah, that's because we have some other changes for the cros_ec_typec.c driver
> already in platform/chrome for our 5.12 branch.
> 
> For 5.12, the changes for cros_ec_typec driver is pretty well contained,
> although there is some dependence on typec subsystem changes now.
> 
> If I send you a pull request containing all of the changes for this driver we
> have already merged, plus these last three that depend on both of our trees
> would you merge it through usb for 5.12?

If the subsystem maintainer says it is ok, yes, I will be glad to take a
stable git tag to pull from into my usb-next branch.

thanks,

greg k-h