[PATCH 4/5 v2] input: tc3589x-keypad: support probing from device tree

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Nov 14 06:12:45 EST 2013


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:29:24PM +0000, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 02:24:06PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > Current suggestions (taken from kernel) are:
> > > 
> > > * <<vendor>>,no-autorepeat
> > > * keypad,autorepeat
> > > * linux,keypad-no-autorepeat
> > > * linux,input-no-autorepeat
> > > * linux,no-autorepeat
> > > * autorepeat
> > > 
> > > I do not really care, which one is chosen, except for two things:
> > > 
> > > * <<vendor>> seems wrong. This is not vendor specific.
> > > * I would prefer "input-" over "keypad-", since then the same name
> > >   can be used for single keys, buttons, etc.
> > 
> > Both of those sound valid to me, but I think it may make sense to keep
> > the "linux," prefix. As I understand it this is really telling the Linux
> > input subsystem to react to a device acting in a certain way, rather
> > than describing or configuring the device in a certain way.
> 
> That leaves the following two options:
> 
> * linux,input-no-autorepeat
> * linux,no-autorepeat
> 
> Any suggestions for those?

I'd go for "linux,input-no-autorepeat", it leaves less ambiguity as to
its purpose.

Mark.



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