drm/sysfs: Link DRM connectors to corresponding Type-C connectors
Create a symlink pointing to USB Type-C connector for DRM connectors
when they are created. The link will be created only if the firmware is
able to describe the connection beween the two connectors.
Currently, even if a display uses a USB Type-C port, there is no way for
the userspace to find which port is used for which display. With the
symlink, display information would be accessible from Type-C connectors
and port information would be accessible from DRM connectors.
Associating the two subsystems, userspace would have potential to expose
and utilize more complex information. ChromeOS intend to use this
information for metrics collection. For example, we want to tell which
port is deriving which displays. Also, combined with USB PD information,
we can tell whether user is charging their device through display.
Chromium patch for parsing the symlink from the kernel is at
http://crrev.com/c/
4317207.
We already have a framework in typec port-mapper.c where it goes through
component devices and runs the bind functions for those with matching
_PLD (physical location of device).
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18.1/source/drivers/usb/typec/
port-mapper.c
Since _PLD is ACPI specific field, this linking would only work on ACPI
x86 as long as _PLD field for Type-C connectors and DRM connectors are
correctly added to the firmware.
Currently, USB ports and USB4 ports are added as components to create a
symlink with Type C connector.
USB:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/
20211223082349.45616-1-heikki.krogerus
@linux.intel.com/
USB4:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/
20220418175932.
1809770-3-wonchung@google.com/
So, we follow the same pattern in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Won Chung <wonchung@google.com>
Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Manasi Navare <navaremanasi@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Manasi Navare <navaremanasi@chromium.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230427165813.2844530-1-wonchung@google.com