Re: [PATCH] input: Add support for the TSC2003 controller.

[Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com>]

Hi Therry,

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> wrote:
> * Trilok Soni wrote:
>> Hi Thierry,
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Thierry Reding
>> <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> wrote:
>> > * Kwangwoo Lee wrote:
>> >> Hi Thierry and Trilok,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Thierry,
>> >> >
>> >> > I have added linux-omap community. How different is this chip from
>> >> > tsc2007. It looks to me that this chip is not much different from
>> >> > tsc2007 (this is just quick look at the driver). If they
>> >> > are similar please consider using i2c_device_id feature in tsc2007 to
>> >> > accommodate this chip.
>> >>
>> >> I agree with the Trilok's opinion.
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > I only noticed the tsc2007 driver some time ago, when the tsc2003 was already
>> > finished (it's actually pretty old, I just never got around to submitting
>> > it). However I never got the tsc2007 to work on my platform because it uses
>> > sleeping functions inside the timer handler, which results in an oops right
>> > after the first touchscreen interrupt.
>> >
>> > I guess I could try and fix the tsc2007 properly instead of having a second,
>> > pretty similar driver in the tree.
>> >
>>
>> This could be because of improper locking? If you share a crash we can
>> have look at it.
>
> Attached is a patch that fixes things for me. The problem was that the I2C
> transfers were done in interrupt context which fails for the controller I use
> (PXA270). The attached patch uses a struct work_struct to schedule the I2C
> transfers so they are executed in non-interrupt context.
>
> I've tested the patch on a minimal system with tslib and it work fine with
> ts_calibrate and friends.

Thanks for the patch. It looks good. Let's wait for Kwangwoo Lee to
verify it on his platform. Also please add "tsc2003" entry into
i2c_device_ids so that i2c_board_info can specify the .name as
"tsc2003".

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