On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 14:20 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:59:58PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > Hi Guenter,
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:11:43PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Personally I don't really care about a module parameter; as mentioned
> > > above,
> > > I would expect the preference, if it needs to be selectable, to be
> > > configured
> > > with devicetree or ACPI properties (or by a platform driver which sets a
> > > device
> > > property).
> >
> > Unfortunately we can not assume the firmware to be always correct.
> > Companies love to recycle the firmware. We are going to see products
> > from a company X that should prefer source role, a desktop for
> > example, but still give the OS a device property that says otherwise.
> > The reason for that is most likely because the previous product from
> > that company was some kind of mobile device.
> >
> > So IMHO we need some way for the OS to override this thing eventually.
> > If not module parameters, then something else. The other option is
> > board specific quirks, and I would really prefer to avoid those if we
> > can.
>
> Whatever it is, it is NOT going to be a module parameter, sorry, that
> ship has long sailed and will not be coming back. This isn't the 1990's
> anymore...
Do you have a sensible alternative that works at boot time?
Regards
Oliver
