[PATCH v3 0/4] Input: support overlay objects on touchscreens

Javier Carrasco
2023-06-16T07:29:27Z

Some touchscreens are shipped with a physical layer on top of them where
a number of buttons and a resized touchscreen surface might be available.

In order to generate proper key events by overlay buttons and adjust the
touch events to a clipped surface, these patches offer a documented,
device-tree-based solution by means of helper functions.
An implementation for a specific touchscreen driver is also included.

The functions in ts-overlay provide a simple workflow to acquire
physical objects from the device tree, map them into the device driver
structures as overlay objects and generate events according to
the object descriptions.

This feature has been tested with a JT240MHQS-E3 display, which consists
of an st1624 as the base touchscreen and an overlay with two buttons and
a frame that clips its effective surface mounted on it.

Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco@wolfvision.net>
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Changes in v3:
- General: rename "virtobj" and "virtual" to "overlay"
- PATCH 1/4: Make feature bool instead of tristate (selected by
supported touchscreens)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-v2-0-f68a6bfe7a0f@wolfvision.net

Changes in v2:
- PATCH 1/4: remove preprocessor directives (the module is selected by
the drivers that support the feature). Typo in the commit message.
- PATCH 2/4: more detailed documentation. Images and examples were added.
- PATCH 3/4: select ts-virtobj automatically.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-v1-0-5ae5e81bc264@wolfvision.net

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Javier Carrasco (4):
Input: ts-overlay - Add touchscreen overlay object handling
dt-bindings: touchscreen: add overlay-touchscreen and overlay-buttons properties
Input: st1232 - add overlay touchscreen and buttons handling
dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: st1232: add example with ts-overlay

.../input/touchscreen/sitronix,st1232.yaml | 40 +++
.../bindings/input/touchscreen/touchscreen.yaml | 139 ++++++++
MAINTAINERS | 7 +
drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig | 10 +
drivers/input/touchscreen/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/input/touchscreen/st1232.c | 87 +++--
drivers/input/touchscreen/ts-overlay.c | 356 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/input/ts-overlay.h | 43 +++
8 files changed, 665 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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base-commit: ac9a78681b921877518763ba0e89202254349d1b
change-id: 20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-e267540aae74

Best regards,
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Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco@wolfvision.net>