Re: [PATCH 0/3] thunderbolt: Update XDomain vendor properties dynamically

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 11:46:04AM +0530, Rangoju, Raju wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/28/2025 12:17 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 11:20:23PM +0530, Raju Rangoju wrote:
> > > This patch series aims to update vendor properties for XDomain
> > > dynamically for vendors like AMD, Intel and ASMedia.
> > 
> > The XDomain properties pretty much describe "software" not the underlying
> > hardware so I don't understand why this is needed? We could have some USB
> > IF registered Linux specific ID there but I don't see why this matters at
> > all.
> 
> Currently, it is showing up as "Intel" on AMD host controllers during
> inter-domain connection. I suppose an alternative is to just call it "Linux"
> or "Linux Connection Manager" to ensure we accurately represent the
> connections across different systems.
> 
> I appreciate your guidance on this and suggestions you might have.

Yeah, something like that (I prefer "Linux"). The "ID" still is 0x8086
though but I don't think that matters. AFAIK we have other "donated" IDs in
use in Linux. Let me check on our side if that's okay.

> 
> > 
> > > Raju Rangoju (3):
> > >    thunderbolt: Dynamically populate vendor properties for XDomain
> > >    PCI: Add PCI vendor ID for ASMedia USB4 devices
> > >    thunderbolt: Add vendor ASMedia in update_property_block for XDomain
> > > 
> > >   drivers/thunderbolt/nvm.c     |  2 +-
> > >   drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > >   include/linux/pci_ids.h       |  1 +
> > >   3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 2.34.1