Dan Williams
2021-Sep-30 19:04 UTC
[PATCH v2 1/6] driver core: Move the "authorized" attribute from USB/Thunderbolt to core
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:25 AM Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkelshb at gmail.com> wrote:> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 6:28 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:20 AM Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkelshb at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:05 AM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan > > > <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy at linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > no functional > > > > changes other than value 2 being not visible to the user. > > > > > > > > > > Are we sure we don't break any user-facing tool with it? Tools might use this to > > > "remember" how the device was authorized this time. > > > > That's why it was highlighted in the changelog. Hopefully a > > Thunderbolt developer can confirm if it is a non-issue. > > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt does not seem to > > answer this question about whether authorized_show and > > authorized_store need to be symmetric. > > Apparently, Bolt does read it [1] and cares about it [2].Ah, thank you! Yeah, looks like the conversion to bool was indeed too hopeful.> > [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt/-/blob/130e09d1c7ff02c09e4ad1c9c36e9940b68e58d8/boltd/bolt-sysfs.c#L511 > [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt/-/blob/130e09d1c7ff02c09e4ad1c9c36e9940b68e58d8/boltd/bolt-device.c#L639