Re: [PATCH] extcon : register for cable interest by cable name

[MyungJoo Ham]

> There are some scnearios where a driver/framework needs to register
> interest for a particular cable without specifying the extcon device
> name. One such scenario is charger notifications. The platform will
> have charger cabel which will be bound to any extcon device. It's
> not mandatory for the charger driver to know which extcon device
> it should use. This patch enables the support for registering
> interest for a cable just by cable name wihtout specifying the
> extcon device name
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jenny TC <jenny.tc@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
[]
> +extern struct extcon_dev *register_interest_cable_byname
> +		(struct extcon_specific_cable_nb *extcon_dev,
> +		const char *cable_name, struct notifier_block *nb);

What about allowing extcon_register_interest() to support the functionality?

I.e., allowing extcon_register_interest() to accept NULL extcon_name.


ps. anyway, usually, the "platforms" have the list of node paths, don't they?

Cheers!
MyungJoo
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