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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@gmail.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	"Mike Lockwood" <lockwood@android.com>,
	"Arve Hjønnevag" <arve@android.com>,
	"Kyungmin Park" <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	"Morten CHRISTIANSEN" <morten.christiansen@stericsson.com>,
	"John Stultz" <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"Joerg Roedel" <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PULL-REQUEST] EXTCON Patches (Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Introduce External Connector Class (extcon))
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:43:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309124337.GW3273@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0PZbQ3nJXUnzVrKa8qWa852FawJtzZVSANG=ry_Sy0-JuFVg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 05:26:26PM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Mark Brown

> > The issue is the combination of the naming (h2w isn't very meaningful
> > and only works with a single jack) and the magic numbers used for
> > reporting state, plus the registration collisions.  Existing code can be
> > ported over fairly easily but it's got issues as an ABI which we'd want
> > to fix.

> The ABI of simply ported (only with API name changes) ex-switch extcon
> device won't be changed:

> Or, do you mean that extcon class should support not ex-swtich extcon
> device drivers such as adc-jack.c (not ported from oldies) to support
> "legacy" userspace application that is aware of only switch interface?

Neither of these, I mean that we'll probably want to do some updates to
the drivers as they go into mainline which will change their interface
beyond the simple s/switch/extcon/ change.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28  8:58 [PULL-REQUEST] EXTCON Patches (Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Introduce External Connector Class (extcon)) MyungJoo Ham
2012-02-28 16:44 ` Greg KH
2012-02-28 16:57   ` Mark Brown
2012-02-28 17:02     ` Greg KH
2012-02-28 17:45       ` Mark Brown
2012-02-29  2:05         ` MyungJoo Ham
2012-02-29 12:35           ` Mark Brown
2012-03-05  7:59             ` MyungJoo Ham
2012-03-05 12:07               ` Mark Brown
2012-03-09  8:26                 ` MyungJoo Ham
2012-03-09 12:43                   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-02-29  1:57   ` MyungJoo Ham
2012-02-29  1:59     ` MyungJoo Ham

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