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From: Sicelo <absicsz@gmail.com>
To: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: maemo-leste@lists.dyne.org,
	Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: supporting binary (near-far) proximity sensors over gpio
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:21:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZVevR_ajeB1jfDS9@tp440p.steeds.sam> (raw)

Hi

Some phones have 1-bit proximity sensors, which simply toggle a GPIO
line to indicate that an object is near or far. Thresholds are set at
hardware level. One such sensor is OSRAM SFH 7741 [1], which is used on
the Nokia N900.

It is currently exported over evdev, emitting the SW_FRONT_PROXIMITY key
code [2].

So the question is: should a new, general purpose iio-gpio driver be
written, that would switch such a proximity sensor to the iio framework?
Or evdev is really the best place to support it?

There are a couple of people who are willing to write such an iio
driver, if iio is the way to go.

Regards,
Sicelo

[1] https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Osram%20PDFs/SFH_7741.pdf
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.6.1/source/arch/arm/boot/dts/ti/omap/omap3-n900.dts#L111

             reply	other threads:[~2023-11-17 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-17 18:21 Sicelo [this message]
2023-11-19  0:09 ` supporting binary (near-far) proximity sensors over gpio David Lechner
2023-11-20 17:31   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-11-20 20:23     ` Sicelo
2023-11-26  4:33   ` Jeff LaBundy
2023-11-26 10:59     ` Philipp Jungkamp
2023-12-04 10:09       ` Jonathan Cameron

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