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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/clients/san.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/clients/san.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..38c2580e7758 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/surface_aggregator/clients/san.rst @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + +.. |san_client_link| replace:: :c:func:`san_client_link` +.. |san_dgpu_notifier_register| replace:: :c:func:`san_dgpu_notifier_register` +.. |san_dgpu_notifier_unregister| replace:: :c:func:`san_dgpu_notifier_unregister` + +=================== +Surface ACPI Notify +=================== + +The Surface ACPI Notify (SAN) device provides the bridge between ACPI and +SAM controller. Specifically, ACPI code can execute requests and handle +battery and thermal events via this interface. In addition to this, events +relating to the discrete GPU (dGPU) of the Surface Book 2 can be sent from +ACPI code (note: the Surface Book 3 uses a different method for this). The +only currently known event sent via this interface is a dGPU power-on +notification. While this driver handles the former part internally, it only +relays the dGPU events to any other driver interested via its public API and +does not handle them. + +The public interface of this driver is split into two parts: Client +registration and notifier-block registration. + +A client to the SAN interface can be linked as consumer to the SAN device +via |san_client_link|. This can be used to ensure that the a client +receiving dGPU events does not miss any events due to the SAN interface not +being set up as this forces the client driver to unbind once the SAN driver +is unbound. + +Notifier-blocks can be registered by any device for as long as the module is +loaded, regardless of being linked as client or not. Registration is done +with |san_dgpu_notifier_register|. If the notifier is not needed any more, it +should be unregistered via |san_dgpu_notifier_unregister|. + +Consult the API documentation below for more details. + + +API Documentation +================= + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/surface_acpi_notify.h + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c + :export: |