On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 04:13:31PM +0000, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > > > [1] When the power supply for the docking station is bigger than the > > > laptop's power supply, you begin to wonder what is in that thing and > > > stop using it after a while... > > Mostly to satisfy letting the docking station work with beefier machines and > still deliver power up to what USB PD will negotiate. > I think they can actually run with smaller power supplies but you will need > something "a little" bigger than regular system power supply to power the > dock and system both.
Given the date of my docking station (2+ years old), I would be _amazed_ if it could do USB PD. But I should go try it, my existing Dell laptop doesn't support that, but I have an Acer here, along with some chromebooks that do. I guess I need to go get the latest Dell laptop, "just to test" with :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
