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SubjectRe: [patch 4/6] Add output class document
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Hi,

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 21:22 +0800, Yu Luming wrote:

> diff --git a/Documentation/video-output.txt b/Documentation/video-output.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..71b1dba
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/video-output.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> +
> + Video Output Switcher Control
> + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> + 2006 luming.yu@gmail.com
> +
> +The output sysfs class driver is to provide video output abstract layer that
> +can be used to hook platform specific methods to enable/disable video output
> +device through common sysfs interface. For example, on my IBM Thinkpad T42
> +aptop, acpi video driver registered its output devices and read/write method
> +for state with output sysfs class. The user interface under sysfs is :

Rephrased, s/Thinkpad/ThinkPad, s/aptop/laptop, s/acpi/ACPI, kill
whitespace in front of colon:

The output sysfs class driver provides an abstract video output layer that
can be used to hook platform specific methods to enable/disable video output
devices through a common sysfs interface. For example, on my IBM ThinkPad T42
laptop, the ACPI video driver registers its output devices and read/write methods
for 'state' with output sysfs class. The user interface under sysfs is:

The last but one sentence still sounds bogus to me, maybe someone else
has an idea.

> +linux:/sys/class/video_output # tree .
> +.
> +|-- CRT0
> +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
> +| |-- state
> +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
> +| `-- uevent
> +|-- DVI0
> +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
> +| |-- state
> +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
> +| `-- uevent
> +|-- LCD0
> +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
> +| |-- state
> +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
> +| `-- uevent
> +`-- TV0
> + |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
> + |-- state
> + |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
> + `-- uevent
> +

Thanks,

Timo

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