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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/6] driver core: Move the "authorized" attribute from USB/Thunderbolt to core
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:20 AM Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkelshb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:05 AM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > no functional
> > changes other than value 2 being not visible to the user.
> >
>
> Are we sure we don't break any user-facing tool with it? Tools might use this to
> "remember" how the device was authorized this time.

That's why it was highlighted in the changelog. Hopefully a
Thunderbolt developer can confirm if it is a non-issue.
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt does not seem to
answer this question about whether authorized_show and
authorized_store need to be symmetric.

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