Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] driver core: Move the "authorized" attribute from USB/Thunderbolt to core
From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-30 15:28:49
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linux-pci, lkml, virtualization
From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-30 15:28:49
Also in:
linux-pci, lkml, virtualization
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:20 AM Yehezkel Bernat [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:05 AM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
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.