The patch titled Add output class document has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is add-output-class-document.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Add output class document From: Yu Luming <luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx> Add output class document Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <Luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/video-output.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+) diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/video-output.txt --- /dev/null +++ a/Documentation/video-output.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ + + Video Output Switcher Control + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + 2006 luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx + +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 + _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from luming.yu@xxxxxxxxx are video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register.patch add-display-output-class-support.patch backlight-and-output-sysfs-support-for-acpi-video-driver.patch add-output-class-document.patch fix-comments-style-in-acpi-videoc.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html