Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2016 11:23:46 +0300 | From | Heikki Krogerus <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCHv2] usb: USB Type-C Connector Class |
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 03:35:35PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 16:28 +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > > > I would prefer lower case letters. I don't know the SIDs there are at > > them moment, other then Display Port. Do you know them? > > > > I don't think we can ever guarantee that in every case we will be able > > to provide a human readable name for the alternate modes if they are > > vendor defined. We will then potentially still have the names in two > > different forms: "usbc0.displayport" and "usbc0.svid:xxxx". Is that > > something acceptable to everybody? > > > > I guess if it's not, then to only way to go forward would be to always > > just use the svid in the name. > > Yes, that is better. It makes more sense to use the number. > We'd get into versioning problems if we use names.
OK, so we'll always use the svid in the name.
Thanks,
-- heikki
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