usb: Add "portX/connect_type" attribute to expose usb port's connect type

Some platforms provide usb port connect types through ACPI. This
patch is to add this new attribute to expose these information
to user space.

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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2013-01-20 01:53:32 +08:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@@ -227,3 +227,12 @@ Contact: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Description:
The /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../(hub interface)/portX
is usb port device's sysfs directory.
What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../(hub interface)/portX/connect_type
Date: January 2013
Contact: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Description:
Some platforms provide usb port connect types through ACPI.
This attribute is to expose these information to user space.
The file will read "hotplug", "wired" and "not used" if the
information is available, and "unknown" otherwise.