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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: tecfacet <tecfacet@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rotary encoder linux driver
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:48:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141014084815.GC7958@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413163743.39490.YahooMailNeo@web160203.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:29:03PM -0700, tecfacet wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am interested in the rotary encoder kernel driver.  I am very new to
> this linux kernel driver thing.  
> 
> How do I pass the gpio and interrupt stuff to the kernel module.. I
> think it is thru the rotary_encoder.h file.. am I correct?

That should be done through the device tree these days. The binding is
documented in

	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/rotary-encoder.txt

in the kernel source tree.

> How does the information about encoder position etc get back to my
> user space program?  How is debounce handled?
> I am a little confused.  Is there an example of a complete working
> implementation?  I need to figure this out for school.

Have a look at the evtest program for an example:

	http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/evtest

Good luck,
Johan

       reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1413163743.39490.YahooMailNeo@web160203.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
2014-10-14  8:48 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2014-10-14 22:44   ` rotary encoder linux driver Ben Gamari

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