[PATCH 4/4] output: Drop display output class support

Jean Delvare jdelvare at suse.de
Mon Mar 17 07:49:10 PDT 2014


It was only ever used by the ACPI video driver, and that only use case
vanished over 3 years ago (see commit 677bd810, "ACPI video: remove
output switching control".) So this is dead code and I guess we can
remove it now.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang at intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
---
 drivers/video/Kconfig        |    6 -
 drivers/video/Makefile       |    2 
 drivers/video/output.c       |  133 -------------------------------------------
 include/linux/video_output.h |   57 ------------------
 4 files changed, 198 deletions(-)

--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/drivers/video/Kconfig	2014-02-17 15:22:14.704636928 +0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc7/drivers/video/Kconfig	2014-03-17 14:37:39.274887482 +0100
@@ -27,12 +27,6 @@ config VGASTATE
        tristate
        default n
 
-config VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL
-	tristate "Lowlevel video output switch controls"
-	help
-	  This framework adds support for low-level control of the video 
-	  output switch.
-
 config VIDEOMODE_HELPERS
 	bool
 
--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/drivers/video/Makefile	2014-02-09 16:53:05.791694131 +0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc7/drivers/video/Makefile	2014-03-17 14:37:56.910247231 +0100
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE)           += sim
 # the test framebuffer is last
 obj-$(CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL)          += vfb.o
 
-#video output switch sysfs driver
-obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL) += output.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEOMODE_HELPERS) += display_timing.o videomode.o
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_OF),y)
 obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEOMODE_HELPERS) += of_display_timing.o of_videomode.o
--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/drivers/video/output.c	2014-01-20 03:40:07.000000000 +0100
+++ /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  output.c - Display Output Switch driver
- *
- *  Copyright (C) 2006 Luming Yu <luming.yu at intel.com>
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- *
- *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
- *  your option) any later version.
- *
- *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- *  General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- *  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- */
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/video_output.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/err.h>
-#include <linux/ctype.h>
-
-
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Display Output Switcher Lowlevel Control Abstraction");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Luming Yu <luming.yu at intel.com>");
-
-static ssize_t state_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
-			  char *buf)
-{
-	ssize_t ret_size = 0;
-	struct output_device *od = to_output_device(dev);
-	if (od->props)
-		ret_size = sprintf(buf,"%.8x\n",od->props->get_status(od));
-	return ret_size;
-}
-
-static ssize_t state_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
-			   const char *buf,size_t count)
-{
-	char *endp;
-	struct output_device *od = to_output_device(dev);
-	int request_state = simple_strtoul(buf,&endp,0);
-	size_t size = endp - buf;
-
-	if (isspace(*endp))
-		size++;
-	if (size != count)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if (od->props) {
-		od->request_state = request_state;
-		od->props->set_state(od);
-	}
-	return count;
-}
-static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(state);
-
-static void video_output_release(struct device *dev)
-{
-	struct output_device *od = to_output_device(dev);
-	kfree(od);
-}
-
-static struct attribute *video_output_attrs[] = {
-	&dev_attr_state.attr,
-	NULL,
-};
-ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(video_output);
-
-static struct class video_output_class = {
-	.name = "video_output",
-	.dev_release = video_output_release,
-	.dev_groups = video_output_groups,
-};
-
-struct output_device *video_output_register(const char *name,
-	struct device *dev,
-	void *devdata,
-	struct output_properties *op)
-{
-	struct output_device *new_dev;
-	int ret_code = 0;
-
-	new_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct output_device),GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!new_dev) {
-		ret_code = -ENOMEM;
-		goto error_return;
-	}
-	new_dev->props = op;
-	new_dev->dev.class = &video_output_class;
-	new_dev->dev.parent = dev;
-	dev_set_name(&new_dev->dev, "%s", name);
-	dev_set_drvdata(&new_dev->dev, devdata);
-	ret_code = device_register(&new_dev->dev);
-	if (ret_code) {
-		kfree(new_dev);
-		goto error_return;
-	}
-	return new_dev;
-
-error_return:
-	return ERR_PTR(ret_code);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_output_register);
-
-void video_output_unregister(struct output_device *dev)
-{
-	if (!dev)
-		return;
-	device_unregister(&dev->dev);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(video_output_unregister);
-
-static void __exit video_output_class_exit(void)
-{
-	class_unregister(&video_output_class);
-}
-
-static int __init video_output_class_init(void)
-{
-	return class_register(&video_output_class);
-}
-
-postcore_initcall(video_output_class_init);
-module_exit(video_output_class_exit);
--- linux-3.14-rc7.orig/include/linux/video_output.h	2014-01-20 03:40:07.000000000 +0100
+++ /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *
- *  Copyright (C) 2006 Luming Yu <luming.yu at intel.com>
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- *
- *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
- *  your option) any later version.
- *
- *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- *  General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- *  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
- *
- * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- */
-#ifndef _LINUX_VIDEO_OUTPUT_H
-#define _LINUX_VIDEO_OUTPUT_H
-#include <linux/device.h>
-#include <linux/err.h>
-struct output_device;
-struct output_properties {
-	int (*set_state)(struct output_device *);
-	int (*get_status)(struct output_device *);
-};
-struct output_device {
-	int request_state;
-	struct output_properties *props;
-	struct device dev;
-};
-#define to_output_device(obj) container_of(obj, struct output_device, dev)
-#if	defined(CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL) || defined(CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL_MODULE)
-struct output_device *video_output_register(const char *name,
-	struct device *dev,
-	void *devdata,
-	struct output_properties *op);
-void video_output_unregister(struct output_device *dev);
-#else
-static struct output_device *video_output_register(const char *name,
-        struct device *dev,
-        void *devdata,
-        struct output_properties *op)
-{
-	return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-}
-static void video_output_unregister(struct output_device *dev)
-{
-	return;
-}
-#endif
-#endif


-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support


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