On Fri, Nov 18 2016, 12:07 PM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:48:36AM +0000, Levy, Amir (Jer) wrote:

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BTW, it is quite a shame that the Thunderbolt firmware version can't
be read from Linux.

This is WIP, once this patch will be upstream, we will be able to
focus more on aligning Linux with the Thunderbolt features that we have

for windows.

Why is this patch somehow holding that work back?  You aren't just sitting
around waiting for people to review this and not doing anything else, right?
Is there some basic building block in these patches that your firmware
download code is going to rely on?

confused,

greg k-h

All the Thunderbolt SW features (including networking and FW update) depend 
on the communication with FW, which is patch 3/8 in the series.
The patch also sets up a generic netlink for user space communication.
So yes, the communication with Thunderbolt FW is a basic building block.