From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com (Charles Keepax)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:58:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] extcon: Split out extcon header file for consumer and
 provider device
In-Reply-To: <1506643305-4581-1-git-send-email-cw00.choi@samsung.com>
References: <CGME20170929000148epcas2p200e56186b067ec626a033c7ae2d4bbdb@epcas2p2.samsung.com>
 <1506643305-4581-1-git-send-email-cw00.choi@samsung.com>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 09:01:45AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> The extcon has two type of extcon devices as following.
> - 'extcon provider deivce' adds new extcon device and detect the
>    state/properties of external connector. Also, it notifies the
>    state/properties to the extcon consumer device.
> - 'extcon consumer device' gets the change state/properties
>    from extcon provider device.
> Prior to that, include/linux/extcon.h contains all exported API for
> both provider and consumer device driver. To clarify the meaning of
> header file and to remove the wrong use-case on consumer device,
> this patch separates into extcon.h and extcon-provider.h.
> 
> [Description for include/linux/{extcon.h|extcon-provider.h}]
> - extcon.h includes the extcon API and data structure for extcon consumer
>   device driver. This header file contains the following APIs:
>   : Register/unregister the notifier to catch the change of extcon device
>   : Get the extcon device instance
>   : Get the extcon device name
>   : Get the state of each external connector
>   : Get the property value of each external connector
>   : Get the property capability of each external connector
> 
> - extcon-provider.h includes the extcon API and data structure for extcon
>   provider device driver. This header file contains the following APIs:
>   : Include 'include/linux/extcon.h'
>   : Allocate the memory for extcon device instance
>   : Register/unregister extcon device
>   : Set the state of each external connector
>   : Set the property value of each external connector
>   : Set the property capability of each external connector
> 
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
> Cc: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-arizona.c               |   2 +-

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>

Thanks,
Charles