Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] USB Power Delivery character device interface

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:33:48PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the proposal for USB PD character devices that we could use to
> communicate USB PD messages directly with the USB PD capable partners,
> ports and cable plugs from user space. Originally I proposed this idea
> here as a better way to get the PDOs from the partners (and ports and
> plugs): https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/8/331

You should put the info there (and please use lore.kernel.org in the
future, not lkml.org as we have no control over that site), into this
0/X message as I have no idea _why_ you need a char device and why the
sysfs interface will not work.

So, why not sysfs?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h