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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:29 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/11/20 1:44 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> > I would rather disable them and issue a firmware bug.
> > Vendors, including us, should do something sane about this.
>
> I have to partially disagree here. I agree that for future hardware
> versions the firmware team of those devices should offer a saner
> interface. But for the current hardware gen I guess we are stuck
> with this and having a DMI table for popular models (well any model
> a Linux user is willing to submit a quirk for) is better then simply
> not having things working under Linux.
>
> I do wonder what Windows does here though. Perhaps the INT3513 device
> has some ACPI methods to query for more info, like how many Type-C
> controllers there actually are?

I think they do silly things there in usual obscure MS way, i.e.
hardcoding everything in the driver per platform.
That's why I'm really disappointed how things are going on.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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