Re: [PATCH] input: generic driver for slide switches

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:13:49PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> On Friday 25 February 2011, 14:29:18 Alexander Stein wrote:
> > This patch adds a generic driver for slide switches connected to GPIO
> > pins of a system. It requires gpiolib and generic hardware irqs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/input/misc/Kconfig         |    9 ++
> >  drivers/input/misc/Makefile        |    1 +
> >  drivers/input/misc/slide_switch.c  |  268
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/input/slide_switch.h | 
> >  16 ++
> >  4 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/input/misc/slide_switch.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/input/slide_switch.h
> 
> Did this get overlooked accidentaly?
> 

Hi Alexander,

Hm, can't it be merged with gpio_keys? Just add the 'value' to the
gpio_keys_button structure that would be valid for EV_ABS (or even
EV_REL) types. Debouncing should filter out jittery events...

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry