[PATCH V1 06/11] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-sabrelite: add gpio-keys

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Sat Dec 14 00:00:40 EST 2013


On Friday, December 13, 2013 at 10:55:55 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> Hi Marek,
> 
> On 12/13/2013 02:50 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Friday, December 13, 2013 at 07:45:10 PM, Troy Kisky wrote:
> >> On 12/13/2013 4:51 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Friday, December 13, 2013 at 02:49:10 AM, Troy Kisky wrote:
> >>>> Add power, menu, home, back, volume up, and volume down
> >>>> buttons.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com>
> >>> 
> >>> Are these really present on the board or are they on some expansion
> >>> board? I am not sure how to handle this case when the GPIO buttons are
> >>> on optional expansion board, maybe someone else (Shawn?) will help
> >>> here.
> >>> 
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Marek Vasut
> >> 
> >> You are right, it is an expansion board. But the signals do not conflict
> >> with any other
> >> expansion board that I know of.
> > 
> > ... yet ;-)
> 
> I know of a dozen or so folks who are re-purposing these pins
> (that's the thing about GPIOs!), but in many cases, they're
> doing so by catching the input events matched as this patch
> defines them .
> 
> And since this is how the schematics and hardware manuals label
> the pins, this is the proper way to handle them in the default
> kernel.

OK, I won't pester you about this.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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