Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:03:53 +0900 | Subject | [RFC PATCH 0/3] introduce: Multistate Switch Class | From | MyungJoo Ham <> |
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For switch ports, which may have different types of cables (USB, TA, HDMI, Analog A/V, and others), we often have seperated device drivers that detect the state changes at the port and device drivers that do something according to the state changes.
For example, when MAX8997-MUIC detects a Charger cable insertion, another device driver (such as MAX8903 charger, MAX8997 charger, Charger Manager, or board file) needs to set charger current limit accordingly and when MAX8997-MUIC detects a HDMI cable insertion, multimedia device drivers need to do some operations accordingly.
This patchset supports the usage of notifier for passing such information between device drivers.
Another issue is that at a single switch port, there might be multiple and heterogeneous cables attached at the same time. Besides, the state (Attached or Detached) of each cable may alter independently.
In order to address such issues, Android kernel's "Switch" class seems to be a good basis and we have implemented "Multistate Switch Class" based on it. The "Switch" class code of Android kernel is GPL as well.
Donggeun Kim (1): Multistate Switch Class: add notifier block
MyungJoo Ham (2): Multistate Switch Class: import Android's switch class and modify. Multistate Switch Class: support multiple states at a device.
drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 21 +++ drivers/misc/Makefile | 2 + drivers/misc/switch_class.c | 332 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/misc/switch_gpio.c | 174 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/switch.h | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 694 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/misc/switch_class.c create mode 100644 drivers/misc/switch_gpio.c create mode 100644 include/linux/switch.h
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