On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:48:48PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:25 PM Mychaela Falconia > <mychaela.falconia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why not call it nomctrl ? > > > > I have no opinion one way or another as to what the new sysfs attribute > > should be called - my use case won't involve this sysfs mechanism at > > all, instead I care much more about the path where the tty port flag > > gets set via a driver quirk upon seeing my custom USB ID. :) > > Then why do we bother with sysfs right now? It's an ABI and Johan is > completely aware and knows that once it's in the kernel it is close to > being carved in stone. > I would vote to remove sysfs from now and see if we really need it in > the future. Eh, because this is generally useful and has come up in the past. I'm not interested in adding quirks for odd devices that want non-standard behaviour that we need to maintain indefinitely; that's precisely why I proposed a general interface that can be use with any serial port. Johan
