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| author | Yu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com> | 2006-12-19 12:56:18 -0800 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2006-12-20 01:46:58 -0500 |
| commit | b03637b8863159a4518cb0a9ab90577460fe3417 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fee495630226adcffeec20f47d1254aaccdc23e /Documentation/video-output.txt | |
| parent | 2dec3ba8d872aa3ffbcdb8f6f8a2c0bcd44e9910 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b03637b8863159a4518cb0a9ab90577460fe3417.tar.gz lwn-b03637b8863159a4518cb0a9ab90577460fe3417.zip | |
output: Add output class document
Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <Luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/video-output.txt b/Documentation/video-output.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e517011be4f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/video-output.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ + + Video Output Switcher Control + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + 2006 luming.yu@intel.com + +The output sysfs class driver provides an abstract video output layer that +can be used to hook platform specific methods to enable/disable video output +device through common sysfs interface. For example, on my IBM ThinkPad T42 +laptop, The ACPI video driver registered its output devices and read/write +method for 'state' with output sysfs class. The user interface under sysfs is: + +linux:/sys/class/video_output # tree . +. +|-- CRT0 +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 +| |-- state +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output +| `-- uevent +|-- DVI0 +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 +| |-- state +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output +| `-- uevent +|-- LCD0 +| |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 +| |-- state +| |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output +| `-- uevent +`-- TV0 + |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 + |-- state + |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output + `-- uevent + |