RE: [PATCH] extcon : callback function to read cable property

[anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 01:20 +0000, Tc, Jenny wrote:
> > From: anish kumar [mailto:anish198519851985@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 8:15 PM
> > To: Tc, Jenny
> > Cc: myungjoo.ham@samsung.com; cw00.choi@samsung.com; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] extcon : callback function to read cable property
> > 
> > I think the reason why we have extcon is in first place is to only notify the
> > clients of cable connection and disconnection and it is up to the client to
> > decide what else to do with the cable such as finding which state it is in and
> > other details.
> > So I feel this should not be handled in the extcon.
> > 
> > However it is up to the maintainer to decide.
> 
> Once the consumer gets the notification, it needs to take some action. 
> One of the action is to read the cable properties. This can be done 
> by proprietary calls which is known both to the consumer and the provider. 
> My intention is to avoid this proprietary calls. Since both the provider 
> and consumer are communicating with the extcon subsystem , I feel having a 
> callback function of this kind would help to avoid the use of proprietary 
> calls. Also I agree that extcon notifier chains are used to notify the cable 
> state (attach/detach). But if a cable has more than two states (like the 
> charger cable) how do we support it without having a callback function like this? 
> Let the maintainer take the final decision.
Well this use case will keep on growing if we start factor in this kind
of changes and that is why I am opposed to adding any other state.
Maintainer?
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