It was only ever used by the ACPI video driver, and that only use case
vanished over 3 years ago (see commit 677bd810, "ACPI video: remove
output switching control".) So this is dead code and I guess we can
remove it now.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang at intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
---
 drivers/video/Kconfig        |    6 -
 drivers/video/Makefile       |    2 
 drivers/video/output.c       |  133 -------------------------------------------
 include/linux/video_output.h |   57 ------------------
 4 files changed, 198 deletions(-)

--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/drivers/video/Kconfig   2014-02-17 15:22:14.704636928 
+0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc7/drivers/video/Kconfig        2014-03-17 14:37:39.274887482 
+0100
@@ -27,12 +27,6 @@ config VGASTATE
        tristate
        default n

-config VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL
-       tristate "Lowlevel video output switch controls"
-       help
-         This framework adds support for low-level control of the video 
-         output switch.
-
 config VIDEOMODE_HELPERS
        bool

--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/drivers/video/Makefile  2014-02-09 16:53:05.791694131 
+0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc7/drivers/video/Makefile       2014-03-17 14:37:56.910247231 
+0100
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE)           += sim
 # the test framebuffer is last
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL)          += vfb.o

-#video output switch sysfs driver
-obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL) += output.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEOMODE_HELPERS) += display_timing.o videomode.o
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_OF),y)
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEOMODE_HELPERS) += of_display_timing.o of_videomode.o
--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/drivers/video/output.c  2014-01-20 03:40:07.000000000 
+0100
+++ /dev/null   1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  output.c - Display Output Switch driver
- *
- *  Copyright (C) 2006 Luming Yu <luming.yu at intel.com>
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- *
- *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
- *  your option) any later version.
- *
- *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- *  General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- *  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- */
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/video_output.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/err.h>
-#include <linux/ctype.h>
-
-
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Display Output Switcher Lowlevel Control Abstraction");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Luming Yu <luming.yu at intel.com>");
-
-static ssize_t state_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
-                         char *buf)
-{
-       ssize_t ret_size = 0;
-       struct output_device *od = to_output_device(dev);
-       if (od->props)
-               ret_size = sprintf(buf,"%.8x\n",od->props->get_status(od));
-       return ret_size;
-}
-
-static ssize_t state_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
-                          const char *buf,size_t count)
-{
-       char *endp;
-       struct output_device *od = to_output_device(dev);
-       int request_state = simple_strtoul(buf,&endp,0);
-       size_t size = endp - buf;
-
-       if (isspace(*endp))
-               size++;
-       if (size != count)
-               return -EINVAL;
-
-       if (od->props) {
-               od->request_state = request_state;
-               od->props->set_state(od);
-       }
-       return count;
-}
-static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(state);
-
-static void video_output_release(struct device *dev)
-{
-       struct output_device *od = to_output_device(dev);
-       kfree(od);
-}
-
-static struct attribute *video_output_attrs[] = {
-       &dev_attr_state.attr,
-       NULL,
-};
-ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(video_output);
-
-static struct class video_output_class = {
-       .name = "video_output",
-       .dev_release = video_output_release,
-       .dev_groups = video_output_groups,
-};
-
-struct output_device *video_output_register(const char *name,
-       struct device *dev,
-       void *devdata,
-       struct output_properties *op)
-{
-       struct output_device *new_dev;
-       int ret_code = 0;
-
-       new_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct output_device),GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!new_dev) {
-               ret_code = -ENOMEM;
-               goto error_return;
-       }
-       new_dev->props = op;
-       new_dev->dev.class = &video_output_class;
-       new_dev->dev.parent = dev;
-       dev_set_name(&new_dev->dev, "%s", name);
-       dev_set_drvdata(&new_dev->dev, devdata);
-       ret_code = device_register(&new_dev->dev);
-       if (ret_code) {
-               kfree(new_dev);
-               goto error_return;
-       }
-       return new_dev;
-
-error_return:
-       return ERR_PTR(ret_code);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_output_register);
-
-void video_output_unregister(struct output_device *dev)
-{
-       if (!dev)
-               return;
-       device_unregister(&dev->dev);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_output_unregister);
-
-static void __exit video_output_class_exit(void)
-{
-       class_unregister(&video_output_class);
-}
-
-static int __init video_output_class_init(void)
-{
-       return class_register(&video_output_class);
-}
-
-postcore_initcall(video_output_class_init);
-module_exit(video_output_class_exit);
--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/include/linux/video_output.h    2014-01-20 
03:40:07.000000000 +0100
+++ /dev/null   1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *
- *  Copyright (C) 2006 Luming Yu <luming.yu at intel.com>
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- *
- *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
- *  your option) any later version.
- *
- *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- *  General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- *  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- */
-#ifndef _LINUX_VIDEO_OUTPUT_H
-#define _LINUX_VIDEO_OUTPUT_H
-#include <linux/device.h>
-#include <linux/err.h>
-struct output_device;
-struct output_properties {
-       int (*set_state)(struct output_device *);
-       int (*get_status)(struct output_device *);
-};
-struct output_device {
-       int request_state;
-       struct output_properties *props;
-       struct device dev;
-};
-#define to_output_device(obj) container_of(obj, struct output_device, dev)
-#if    defined(CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL) || 
defined(CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL_MODULE)
-struct output_device *video_output_register(const char *name,
-       struct device *dev,
-       void *devdata,
-       struct output_properties *op);
-void video_output_unregister(struct output_device *dev);
-#else
-static struct output_device *video_output_register(const char *name,
-        struct device *dev,
-        void *devdata,
-        struct output_properties *op)
-{
-       return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-}
-static void video_output_unregister(struct output_device *dev)
-{
-       return;
-}
-#endif
-#endif


-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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