Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] da850-evm: add UI Expander pushbuttons

[Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:48:21AM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> [...]
>> Agreed.  In general, we should not have machine/platform specific
>> conditionals in generic Kconfigs.   Generally, this should be handled in
>> machine/platform specific Kconfigs.
>>
> The patch that I originally wrote for this had the select under the
> Kconfig option for the driver itself, with the decision to use it or not
> being dynamically determined based on the platform data. I maintain that
> this is the only sensible way to deal with things, but this was rejected
> by the input folks at the time who felt that it was adding in extra
> overhead for a corner case. The alternatives then are to either make an
> identical copy of the driver that uses a polled interface, come up with
> lame INPUT_POLLDEV wrapper shims, or simply accept the fact that drivers
> using optional interfaces are going to have to have those interfaces
> built in to the kernel.

Thanks for weighing-in.

From the statements that Dmitry has made [1] [2], I gather that a
separate driver is preferred. But I realized this too late.

I've tested the recent re-send of "[PATCH 09/18] input: add input
driver for polled GPIO buttons" by Gabor Juhos [3] with this patch
series and it works well. The changes needed in this patch series are
minimal. I have some review comments for the gpio_buttons patch that I
will be posting shortly.

The upshot is there will be no need for Kconfig entries for both
INPUT_POLLDEV and KEYBOARD_GPIO in arch/arm/mach-davinci, just one to
enable the gpio_buttons driver.

-- 
Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/14044
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/16478
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/16610

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