On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:48:28PM +0200, Tomasz Stanislawski wrote: > Hi everyone, > This patchset adds support for sii9234 HD Mobile Link Bridge. The chip is used > to convert HDMI signal into MHL. The driver enables HDMI output on Trats and > Trats2 boards. > > The code is based on the driver [1] developed by: > Adam Hampson <ahampson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Erik Gilling <konkers@xxxxxxxxxxx> > with additional contributions from: > Shankar Bandal <shankar.b@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Dharam Kumar <dharam.kr@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > The drivers architecture was greatly simplified and transformed into a form > accepted (hopefully) by opensource community. The main differences from > original code are: > * using single I2C client instead of 4 subclients > * remove all logic non-related to establishing HDMI link > * simplify error handling > * rewrite state machine in interrupt handler > * wakeup and discovery triggered by an extcon event > * integrate with Device Tree > > For now, the driver is added to drivers/misc/ directory because it has neigher > userspace nor kernel interface. The chip is capable of receiving and > processing CEC events, so the driver may export an input device in /dev/ in the > future. However CEC could be also handled by HDMI driver. > > I kindly ask for suggestions about the best location for this driver. It really is an extcon driver, so why not put it in drivers/extcon? And that might solve any build issues you have if you don't select extcon in your .config file and try to build this code :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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