Re: [PATCH] [ARM] pxa/em-x270: add synaptics_i2c touchpad

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >>>>> This patch set adds synaptics_i2c touchpad device registration for the exeda
> >>>>> platform together with voltage reulator glue needed to enable the touchpad
> >>>>> controller.
> >>>>>
> >>> Hmm, t-mobile g1 uses synaptics touchpad connected over i2c, too... Is
> >>> there chance they are compatible or at least similar?
> >> The touchpad controller I have uses the same RMI protocol that g1 does, but it
> >> supports different register set. Besides, g1 has a *touchscreen* and exeda has
> >> 1.5cm x 1.5cm  *touchpad*.
> > 
> > Can we get some code shared? It still looks similar enough.
> 
> The controller detection and basic initialization (report rate, filtering, Z
> Clip) seems to be the same. But afterwards things begin to diverge. For
> instance, g1 reads and parses 15 bytes of data, whilst my touchpad has only 9
> data registers.
> It seems to me that it should be possible to share initialization and basic
> register access, and have different work functions and input events reporting.
> 
> Probably if we had full implementation of Synaptics RMI protocol we could have
> single driver for all RMI-compatible Synaptics devices. RMI states that device
> can report what functionality it supports and based on that it should be
> possible to provide appropriate event parsing and reporting.

Thanks for info. It seems like merging them is project far ahead...

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