From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
To: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msm: trout: add keypad support
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:10:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292001031.8027.9.camel@m0nster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D01D776.6000309@codeaurora.org>
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 13:02 +0530, Trilok Soni wrote:
> To support this, we need to override the input device .name and submit the patches
> for matrix keypad and gpio keys and let the name come through platform data.
>
> You can refer how I am doing in PM8058 keypad driver patch.
ok ..
> But the real question is why can't we just do this in userspace? we should be able
> to override the keymap using setkeycode functionality, isn't it?
It might be possible, but some of the keys are missing in some of the
configurations .. If you had one big configuration with all of the gpio
lines, it might be possible that the missing gpio lines aren't
configured or don't exist.
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 0:24 [PATCH] msm: trout: add keypad support Daniel Walker
2010-12-09 6:34 ` Arce, Abraham
2010-12-09 7:02 ` Trilok Soni
2010-12-09 7:06 ` Trilok Soni
2010-12-09 17:45 ` Daniel Walker
2010-12-09 22:01 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-12-09 22:03 ` Daniel Walker
2010-12-10 7:32 ` Trilok Soni
2010-12-10 17:10 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2010-12-13 18:41 ` Daniel Walker
2010-12-14 6:49 ` Trilok Soni
2010-12-15 7:48 ` Pavel Machek
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