From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Balbi Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] extcon: Split out extcon header file for consumer and provider device Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:26:44 +0300 Message-ID: <87efqbmh7f.fsf@linux.intel.com> References: <1507630671-23536-1-git-send-email-cw00.choi@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1507630671-23536-1-git-send-email-cw00.choi@samsung.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: kishon@ti.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: sre@kernel.org, lee.jones@linaro.org, heiko@sntech.de, yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com, krzk@kernel.org, b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com, wens@csie.org, cw00.choi@samsung.com, chanwoo@kernel.org, myungjoo.ham@samsung.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-rockchip.vger.kernel.org Hi, Chanwoo Choi writes: > 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 Acked-by: Felipe Balbi -- balbi