Re: ads7846 touchscreen: fix pressure

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Fri 2009-10-09 22:22:51, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2009-10-09 09:35:07, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:24:33AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Thu 2009-10-08 10:39:39, Trilok Soni wrote:
> > > > Hi Pavel,
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Zaurus, pressure is reported inverted -- the lighter the pressure,
> > > > > the bigger numerical value. This should fix it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > > > >
> > > > > --- linux-rc/drivers/input.ofic/touchscreen/ads7846.c ? 2009-10-06 13:49:56.000000000 +0200
> > > > > +++ linux-rc/drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c ? ? ? ?2009-10-06 21:18:25.000000000 +0200
> > > > > @@ -608,12 +609,12 @@
> > > > >
> > > > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?input_report_abs(input, ABS_X, x);
> > > > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?input_report_abs(input, ABS_Y, y);
> > > > > - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? input_report_abs(input, ABS_PRESSURE, Rt);
> > > > > + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? input_report_abs(input, ABS_PRESSURE, ts->pressure_max-Rt);
> > > > 
> > > > but same behavior is seen by others using this chip on different
> > > > boards? If not, this has to be done through platform data.
> > > 
> > > Well, I'd expect the chip to behave in similar way on all
> > > platforms. Of course, it would be good if someone with different hw
> > > tested it, but I do not have that hw...
> > > 
> > > So I guess the best way is to make it go in early and see how it does
> > > in testing....
> > 
> > No, this is not how it works. Please do
> > 
> > 	git log -- drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c
> > 
> > and try to check with people who were working on this driver. I somehow
> > doubt that they'd overlook such obvious issue as inverted pressure
> > readings.
> 
> Well, it was certainly not obvious to the one who switched zaurus to
> ads7846, thus causing regression.
> 
> Anyway, people, can you please test ads7846, to see if it has normal
> or inverted pressure readings? I could only find 3 people contributing
> to ads7846 in last year or so, and Eric was one of them... 

So... what is the plan here? Can we just make the fix go in? ...it
seems noone will test it otherwise.

									Pavel
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