[PATCH 5/6] Staging/iio/adc/touchscreen/MXS: add interrupt driven touch detection

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Mon Sep 16 11:10:36 EDT 2013


Dear Jürgen Beisert,

> Hi Marek,
> 
> On Monday 16 September 2013 16:23:48 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > 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 ?
> 
> When they will work: yes. Currently it crashes all the time. The PMIC is a
> beast...

Full ACK

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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