Re: [PATCH] keypad: platform_data and 24xx support -exp

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

Hi Mika,

* lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi> [060113 17:57]:
> Has anybody needed a joypad driver for the omap-boards? 
> I have made changes to keypad driver so that it will support h6300 joypad ok, but I think my approach is a little bit hackish.
> The iPAQ h6300 joypad has 5 sensors that are located in following diagonal locations
> 
> 	UL - Up/Left
> 	DL - Down/Left
> 	DR - Down/Right
> 	UR - Up/Right
> 	CT - Center
> 
> If I press the key-pad for example to North, the joypad will generate 3 keydown events. (CT, UL and UR)
> Same logic applies to all 4 main directions both when the key is pressed down or released.
> Therefore I have put the driver to listen the real sensor events, but instead of sending them to userspace
> I will calculate a "virtual" key event (up, right, down or left) and send that to the userspace.
> 
> I am not yet proposing this patch to be applied to omap kernel, but would anyway like to hear
> some suggestions how to handle this kind of situation.

Maybe you could update it now against the current git tree?

Now that all the key mappings are done in board-*.c files it should be
easy to add support for h6300 too.

Tony