On Monday, 23 February 2026 at 07:35, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote: > In that case we should probably hook the dpcd device into runtime > power and have it make sure that the parent is awake, so if someone > opens the dpcd device and keeps it open, we keep the power on?
I think that's sensible. I'm also not against fwupd also poking the hardware before and after the update, e.g. like a powersave "inhibit" that gets enabled and disabled. > > I've also occasionally wondered what happens to the thing whose > > firmware is being updated if other AUX transfers are happening at > > the same time... > That is a good question also. Ideally, I'd like vendors to use the USB interface to update dock hardware -- it's much safer as you said. At the moment the problem is "solved" by lots of retries. :/ Richard
