From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>,
Esther Shimanovich <eshimanovich@chromium.org>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] PCI: Relabel JHL6540 on Lenovo X1 Carbon 7,8
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 07:37:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240119053756.GC2543524@black.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZalOCPrVA52wyFfv@google.com>
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 08:12:56AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 09:47:07AM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > On 1/18/2024 00:00, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > Before my patch, you see that the JHL6540 controller is inaccurately
> > > > labeled “removable”:
> > > > $ udevadm info -a -p /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:05:00.0 | grep -e
> > > > {removable} -e {device} -e {vendor} -e looking
> > > > looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.4/0000:05:00.0':
> > > > ATTR{device}=="0x15d3"
> > > > ATTR{removable}=="removable"
> > > > ATTR{vendor}=="0x8086"
> > >
> > > This is actually accurate. The Thunderbolt controller is itself
> > > hot-removable and that BTW happens to be hot-removed when fwupd applies
> > > firmware upgrades to the device.
>
> This is quite interesting take. Does fwupd rip the controller out of the
> box to update it? By that account your touchpad is also removable as it
> may stop functioning when its firmware gets updated.
The Thunderbolt controller is connected to a hotpluggable PCIe root port
so it will be dissappear from the userspace so that "removable" in that
sense is accurate.
> > Depending on the consumers of this removable attribute I wonder if we need
> > to a new ATTR of "external" instead of overloading "removable".
>
> Isn't this the same thing? From
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-removable:
>
> What: /sys/devices/.../removable
> Date: May 2021
> Contact: Rajat Jain <rajatxjain@gmail.com>
> Description:
> Information about whether a given device can be removed from the
> platform by the user. This is determined by its subsystem in a
> bus / platform-specific way. This attribute is only present for
> devices that can support determining such information:
>
> =========== ===================================================
> "removable" device can be removed from the platform by the user
> "fixed" device is fixed to the platform / cannot be removed
> by the user.
>
> Note this "by the user". Maybe we should add word "physically" here to
> qualify the meaning completely, but that is what it is. Not that it
> disappears from the bus or stops operating for some time because of
> firmware updates, but it can be physically detached from the
> platform/system.
That would be good to fully qualify what this means. But I get you it is
intented to identify devices that can be physically unplugged from the
system.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-19 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-21 20:53 [PATCH v4] PCI: Relabel JHL6540 on Lenovo X1 Carbon 7,8 Esther Shimanovich
2023-12-21 23:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2023-12-27 0:15 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-12-28 13:25 ` Lukas Wunner
2023-12-28 13:39 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-01-17 21:21 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-01-18 6:00 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-01-18 15:47 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-01-18 16:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2024-01-18 16:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2024-01-19 5:37 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2024-01-19 7:48 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-01-19 10:22 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-01-19 16:03 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-01-22 6:10 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-01-22 23:50 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-01-23 6:18 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-01-25 23:45 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-04-15 22:34 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-04-16 5:03 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-18 19:43 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-04-19 4:49 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-22 19:17 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-04-22 19:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-04-23 5:33 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-23 8:31 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-04-23 8:40 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-23 16:59 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-04-24 8:56 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-25 21:16 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-04-26 4:52 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-26 15:58 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-04-27 5:35 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-04-27 7:41 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-04-27 7:08 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-04-27 15:09 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-05-01 22:23 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-05-02 4:38 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-02 9:54 ` Mario Limonciello
2024-05-02 10:07 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-08 5:14 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-05-10 5:26 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-10 15:44 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-05-11 4:38 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-11 5:43 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-15 18:53 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-05-15 20:35 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-05-15 20:51 ` Lukas Wunner
2024-05-15 21:44 ` Esther Shimanovich
2024-05-16 8:30 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-16 10:03 ` Mika Westerberg
2024-05-16 9:16 ` Mika Westerberg
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