From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbe@pengutronix.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?J=FCrgen_Beisert?=) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:38:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Staging/iio/adc/touchscreen/MXS: add interrupt driven touch detection In-Reply-To: <5235DBEA.7030402@kernel.org> References: <1378887511-24530-1-git-send-email-jbe@pengutronix.de> <52359259.8010202@kernel.org> <5235DBEA.7030402@kernel.org> Message-ID: <201309161038.13977.jbe@pengutronix.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Jonathan, On Sunday 15 September 2013 18:10:18 Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 09/15/13 11:56, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On 09/11/13 09:18, Juergen Beisert wrote: > >> For battery driven systems it is a very bad idea to collect the > >> touchscreen data within a kernel busy loop. > >> > >> This change uses the features of the hardware to delay and accumulate > >> samples in hardware to avoid a high interrupt and CPU load. > >> > >> Note: this is only tested on an i.MX23 SoC yet. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert > >> CC: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org > >> CC: devel at driverdev.osuosl.org > >> CC: Marek Vasut > >> CC: Fabio Estevam > >> CC: Jonathan Cameron > > > > While this driver is placed in IIO within staging at the moment, these > > changes are definitely input related. Hence I have cc'd Dmitry and the > > input list. > > > > I am personaly a little uncomfortable that we have such a complex bit of > > input code sat within an IIO driver but such is life. > > The logic in here looks reasonable to me. I am far from a specialist in how > these touch screens are normally handled though. > > One thing to note is that you really want to get a proposed device tree > spec out asap as that can take longer to review than the driver. If you > are proposing to do that as a future patch, then take into account that > you'll need to ensure these are the defaults if it is not specified in the > device tree for ever more (which is more painful than hammering out he > device tree stuff now!) > ... Will do. Regards, Juergen -- Pengutronix e.K. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?| Juergen Beisert ? ? ? ? ? ? | Linux Solutions for Science and Industry ? ? ?| http://www.pengutronix.de/ |