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From: Andy Ross <andy.ross@windriver.com>
To: Shubhrajyoti <shubhrajyoti@ti.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
	acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] input: Pegatron Lucid accelerometer
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:21:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D35CC1B.3020808@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3529A1.1030804@ti.com>

On 01/17/2011 09:48 PM, Shubhrajyoti wrote:
> Could you explain why a polling is needed. Is no irq line connected.

It's just an ACPI method interface, so no dedicated IRQ certainly.
The firmware does issue ACPI events on coarse orientation changes
(i.e. which edge is up) that we're catching with acpid, so there's no
reason this needs to poll all the time in typical usage.

Andy



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-17 17:56 [PATCH 0/2] Pegatron Lucid tablet accelerometer Andy Ross
2011-01-17 17:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: Pegatron Lucid accelerometer Andy Ross
2011-01-18  5:48   ` Shubhrajyoti
2011-01-18  5:59     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-01-18 17:21     ` Andy Ross [this message]
     [not found]       ` <4D35CC1B.3020808-CWA4WttNNZF54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-01-31 21:30         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-03-18 15:39           ` Anisse Astier
2011-01-17 17:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] asus-laptop: Support pega_accel driver Andy Ross
2011-01-17 18:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] Pegatron Lucid tablet accelerometer Dmitry Torokhov
2011-01-17 22:14   ` Andy Ross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-14 20:14 [PATCH 0/3] " Andy Ross
2011-01-14 20:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: Pegatron Lucid accelerometer Andy Ross
2011-01-15 16:22   ` Corentin Chary
2011-01-15 22:16   ` Dmitry Torokhov

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