Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] usb: mux: add common code for Intel dual role port mux
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 06 2016 - 05:29:56 EST
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:58:52PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03/11/2016 07:57 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:39:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 15:53 +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> >>
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform
> >>> index 5172a61..a2261cb 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform
> >>> @@ -18,3 +18,18 @@ Description:
> >>> devices to opt-out of driver binding using a driver_override
> >>> name such as "none". Only a single driver may be specified in
> >>> the override, there is no support for parsing delimiters.
> >>> +
> >>> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../intel_mux
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> is there any reason to call this "intel_mux"? We want a common interface
> >> for such things. So how about "role_mux" or "master_slave_mux"?
> > I agree, don't make this intel specific, as it shouldn't be.
> >
>
> By the way, do you expect a class for port mux in sysfs?
Why would you create a class? What is that going to do here?
What happened to getting internal help in designing this api? This
shouldn't be my job :)
thanks,
greg k-h