On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Chanwoo Choi <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Cc: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <[email protected]> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Cc: Sebastian Reichel <[email protected]> > Cc: Lee Jones <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <[email protected]> > ---
For > drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.c | 2 +- and > drivers/phy/allwinner/phy-sun4i-usb.c | 2 +- Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]>
