From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753175AbcAOD3W (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:29:22 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:48162 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752264AbcAOD3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:29:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:29:14 -0600 From: Rob Herring To: Andrew Duggan Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov , Linus Walleij , Jiri Kosina , Benjamin Tissoires , Christopher Heiny , Stephen Chandler Paul , Vincent Huang , Chris Healy , Andrey Gusakov , devicetree@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: DT binding: Change touchscreen to touch for use with touchscreens and touchpads Message-ID: <20160115032914.GA31562@rob-hp-laptop> References: <1452814965-22731-1-git-send-email-aduggan@synaptics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1452814965-22731-1-git-send-email-aduggan@synaptics.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:42:45PM -0800, Andrew Duggan wrote: > These generic touchscreen bindings can also be used for touchpads. > Instead of creating new generic bindings this patch just renames then to > touch-*. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Duggan > --- > It was suggested that for the synaptics-rmi4 driver I use the generic > bindings. But, since the rmi4 driver is used for both touchpads and > touchscreens it seemed weird to have a touchpad with a parameter > of touchscreen-inverted-y. I changed all of the references to it in the > source tree. But, I realize this could cause a backwards compatibilty > issue with device trees which are not included in the kernel. It does and you cannot do this. Live with the weirdness or support both names... Rob