[PATCH 5/6] Staging/iio/adc/touchscreen/MXS: add interrupt driven touch detection
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Mon Sep 16 10:23:48 EDT 2013
Dear Jürgen Beisert,
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On Sunday 15 September 2013 12:56:25 Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On 09/11/13 09:18, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > > For battery driven systems it is a very bad idea to collect the
> > > touchscreen data within a kernel busy loop.
> > >
> > > This change uses the features of the hardware to delay and accumulate
> > > samples in hardware to avoid a high interrupt and CPU load.
> > >
> > > Note: this is only tested on an i.MX23 SoC yet.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe at pengutronix.de>
> > > CC: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > > CC: devel at driverdev.osuosl.org
> > > CC: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > > CC: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> > > CC: Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at cam.ac.uk>
> >
> > While this driver is placed in IIO within staging at the moment, these
> > changes are definitely input related. Hence I have cc'd Dmitry and the
> > input list.
> >
> > I am personaly a little uncomfortable that we have such a complex bit of
> > input code sat within an IIO driver but such is life.
>
> Maybe an MFD for this ADC unit would be a better way to go? Currently I
> have a different problem with this driver, because the ADC unit monitors
> the battery as well. And the charging driver from the power subsystem
> needs these values to charge the battery in a correct manner.
Are you planning to post the power block patches too ?
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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