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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2019-06-27 19:56:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 2019-07-15 16:03:02 +0200 |
| commit | 4f4cfa6c560c93ba180c30675cf845e1597de44c (patch) | |
| tree | 0bbe2ec9e6ef62ed2a347504dda50c6bdbe43703 /Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst | |
| parent | docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book (diff) | |
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docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).
Move them to the admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..56d6fa2e2368 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/video-output.rst @@ -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 + |