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SubjectRe: [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_ec_debugfs: Support pd_info v2 format
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Hi Prashant,

On 15/9/20 17:34, Prashant Malani wrote:
> HI Enric,
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 5:48 AM Enric Balletbo i Serra
> <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen, Prashant,
>>
>> On 9/9/20 6:04, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>> Let's try to read more information out of more modern cros_ec devices by
>>> using the v2 format first and then fall back to the v1 format. This
>>> gives us more information about things such as DP mode of the typec pins
>>> and the CC state, along with some more things.
>>>
>>> Cc: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>
>>> Cc: Prashant Malani <pmalani@chromium.org>
>>> Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>>
>>
>> I saw some discussion going on in gerrit (a pity the discussion didn't happen in
>> mainline) Did you end with a conclusion? Can I remove this patch from my backlog?
>
> My apologies for not posting the comment here.
> To summarize: the userspace EC utility ectool [1] can offer the
> equivalent output, but with better formatting. So I believe the
> decision is to use that instead of this patch.
> I also posed a counter-question: can we remove this debugfs pdinfo
> file entirely, since we can pull this information using ectool?
>

If I am not mistaken pdinfo is used by your userspace, so, assuming we don't
break (or we have a plan to not break) things I'm fine with it. In general,
delegating things to userspace and get rid of kernel code is good for everyone.

Thanks,
Enric

> [1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/refs/heads/master/util/ectool.c
>
> Best regards,
>

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