Hi! > >> Also, because soon enough we will have to support USB Power Delivery > >> with Type C connector, this is bound to change in the coming months. > >> > >> Frankly, I wanted all of this to be decided in userland with the > >> kernel just providing notification and basic safety checks (we don't > >> want to allow a bogus userspace daemon frying anybody's devices). > >> > >> How would you feel about that ? > > > > So init=/bin/bash boot no longer provides machine that charges itself? > > > > That would be bad. Traditionally, hardware controls battery charging, > > and if hardware needs some help, we should do it in kernel, to mask > > the difference from userspace. > > this is a very valid point which I hadn't considered :-) > > Seems like kernel it is, no matter how easy or how difficult it gets. Basically yes. Note that for some bells & whistles, you can require userland help. For example it would probably be ok if it charged slower than usual... but I guess that does not really help in this case. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
