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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-02-03 01:39:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-02-03 01:39:22 -0500 |
| commit | 274ec7a8c07036bd02e8f2301456e443ef30b8a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ed2159c6a9c18e78ac3d769f221fdb0f0237d59 /Documentation | |
| parent | 6b259707d53f0f25f0b24318a0774f1ae7e7e92c (diff) | |
| parent | b03637b8863159a4518cb0a9ab90577460fe3417 (diff) | |
| download | linux-274ec7a8c07036bd02e8f2301456e443ef30b8a8.tar.bz2 | |
Pull output-switch into test branch
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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 + |