Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] Extcon: support mutually exclusive relationbetween cables.

From: Mark Brown
Date: Sun Feb 19 2012 - 21:27:42 EST


On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 03:40:37PM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:

> +What: /sys/class/extcon/.../mutually_exclusive
> +Date: December 2011
> +Contact: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +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:
> + # cat mutually_exclusive
> + 0x3
> + 0x5
> + 0xC
> + #

sysfs really isn't supposed to have more than one value per file so this
should be something like a directory with one array element per file.
It'd kind of be cheating but the values could be used as the filenames,
though serial numbers would be more idiomatic.

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