1*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho ChehabVideo Output Switcher Control
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4*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab2006 luming.yu@intel.com
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6*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho ChehabThe output sysfs class driver provides an abstract video output layer that
7*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehabcan be used to hook platform specific methods to enable/disable video output
8*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehabdevice through common sysfs interface. For example, on my IBM ThinkPad T42
9*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehablaptop, The ACPI video driver registered its output devices and read/write
10*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehabmethod for 'state' with output sysfs class. The user interface under sysfs is::
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12*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  linux:/sys/class/video_output # tree .
13*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  .
14*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |-- CRT0
15*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
16*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- state
17*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
18*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   `-- uevent
19*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |-- DVI0
20*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
21*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- state
22*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
23*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   `-- uevent
24*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |-- LCD0
25*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
26*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- state
27*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
28*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  |   `-- uevent
29*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab  `-- TV0
30*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab     |-- device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0
31*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab     |-- state
32*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab     |-- subsystem -> ../../../class/video_output
33*4f4cfa6cSMauro Carvalho Chehab     `-- uevent
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