On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:59:58PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:11:43PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > Personally I don't really care about a module parameter; as mentioned above, > > I would expect the preference, if it needs to be selectable, to be configured > > with devicetree or ACPI properties (or by a platform driver which sets a device > > property). > > Unfortunately we can not assume the firmware to be always correct. > Companies love to recycle the firmware. We are going to see products > from a company X that should prefer source role, a desktop for > example, but still give the OS a device property that says otherwise. > The reason for that is most likely because the previous product from > that company was some kind of mobile device. > > So IMHO we need some way for the OS to override this thing eventually. > If not module parameters, then something else. The other option is > board specific quirks, and I would really prefer to avoid those if we > can. Whatever it is, it is NOT going to be a module parameter, sorry, that ship has long sailed and will not be coming back. This isn't the 1990's anymore... thanks, greg k-h -- 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
