Extcon: support mutually exclusive relation between cables.

There could be cables that t recannot be attaches simulatenously. Extcon
device drivers may express such information via mutually_exclusive in
struct extcon_dev.

For example, for an extcon device with 16 cables (bits 0 to 15 are
available), if mutually_exclusive = { 0x7, 0xC0, 0x81, 0 }, then, the
following attachments are prohibitted.
{0, 1}
{0, 2}
{1, 2}
{6, 7}
{0, 7}
and every attachment set that are superset of one of the above.
For the detail, please refer to linux/include/linux/extcon.h.

The concept is suggested by NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>

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Changes from V5:
- Updated sysfs format
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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MyungJoo Ham
2012-04-20 14:16:26 +09:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 806d9dd71f
commit bde68e60b1
3 changed files with 160 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Description:
may have both HDMI and Charger attached, or analog audio,
video, and USB cables attached simulteneously.
If there are cables mutually exclusive with each other,
such binary relations may be expressed with extcon_dev's
mutually_exclusive array.
What: /sys/class/extcon/.../name
Date: February 2012
Contact: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
@@ -73,3 +77,21 @@ Description:
state of cable "x" (integer between 0 and 31) of an extcon
device. The state value is either 0 (detached) or 1
(attached).
What: /sys/class/extcon/.../mutually_exclusive/...
Date: December 2011
Contact: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Description:
Shows the relations of mutually exclusiveness. For example,
if the mutually_exclusive array of extcon_dev is
{0x3, 0x5, 0xC, 0x0}, the, the output is:
# ls mutually_exclusive/
0x3
0x5
0xc
#
Note that mutually_exclusive is a sub-directory of the extcon
device and the file names under the mutually_exclusive
directory show the mutually-exclusive sets, not the contents
of the files.