Re: Please revert 3eea8b5d68c801fec788b411582b803463834752 as it breaks touchscreen on n900.

Tony Lindgren
2015-06-01T20:54:32Z

* Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> [150601 13:47]:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:27:40PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2015-06-01 10:47:30, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:21:11PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > > > The 3eea8b5d68c801fec788b411582b803463834752 is just bad.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > You were very welcome to review this patch at the time and/or suggest
> > > > > > > a fix that pleases everyone.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You should be the one that should suggest fixes, as you broke it in
> > > > > > the first place. But clearly you don't understand that.
> > > > >
> > > > > You actually never asked for a fix, and went head first calling this
> > > > > patch "bad" and asking for nothing but reverting it.
> > > >
> > > > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 21:08:16 +0200
> > > > Subject: 4.1 touchscreen regression on n900 -- pinpointed [was Re:
> > > > linux-n900
> > > > ...
> > > > Maxime, can you suggest a fix?
> > >
> > > How about we do something like below (it needs a small edt-ft5x06 fixup
> > > that I'll send separately). Not tested.
> >
> > + data_present = touchscreen_get_prop_u32(np,
> > "touchscreen-size-x",
> > +
> > input_abs_get_maximum(axis),
> > + &maximum) |
> > + touchscreen_get_prop_u32(np,
> > "touchscreen-fuzz-x",
> > +
> > input_abs_get_fuzz(axis),
> > + &fuzz);
> > + if (data_present)
> > + touchscreen_set_params(dev, axis, maximum, fuzz);
> >
> > Umm. So you are changing behaviour from "whatever was there" to
> > "input_abs_get_maximum"... in n900 case.o
>
> That _is_ "whatever was there".
>
> > Is that a good idea for a
> > regression fix this late in release cycle?
>
> As Maxime mentioned the new behavior is needed for other touchscreens.
> Given that fixed DTS is going into 4.1 (as far as I understand) we do
> not need to rush this change into 4.1.

OK great. I'm planning to send a pull request to arm-soc for Pavel's
DTS fix today along with few other fixes.

Regards,

Tony