Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:52:24 +0000 (GMT) | From | MyungJoo Ham <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] extcon : register for cable interest by cable name |
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> There are some scnearios where a driver/framework needs to register > interest for a particular cable without specifying the extcon device > name. One such scenario is charger notifications. The platform will > have charger cabel which will be bound to any extcon device. It's > not mandatory for the charger driver to know which extcon device > it should use. This patch enables the support for registering > interest for a cable just by cable name wihtout specifying the > extcon device name > > Signed-off-by: Jenny TC <jenny.tc@intel.com> > --- [] > +extern struct extcon_dev *register_interest_cable_byname > + (struct extcon_specific_cable_nb *extcon_dev, > + const char *cable_name, struct notifier_block *nb);
What about allowing extcon_register_interest() to support the functionality?
I.e., allowing extcon_register_interest() to accept NULL extcon_name.
ps. anyway, usually, the "platforms" have the list of node paths, don't they?
Cheers! MyungJoo
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