[PATCH] fix n900 dts file to work around 4.1 touchscreen regression on n900

[Maxime Ripard]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 02:49:55PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:32:11PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Fix dts to match what the Linux kernel expects. This works around
> > touchscreen problems in 4.1 linux on Nokia n900.
> >     
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt
> > index 4b641c7..09089a6 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt
> > @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ Example:
> >  		touchscreen-fuzz-x = <4>;
> >  		touchscreen-fuzz-y = <7>;
> >  		touchscreen-fuzz-pressure = <2>;
> > -		touchscreen-max-x = <4096>;
> > -		touchscreen-max-y = <4096>;
> > +		touchscreen-size-x = <4096>;
> > +		touchscreen-size-y = <4096>;
> 
> IMHO, the older binding needs to be supported as well. It's fine to
> update the DTS for the new binding, but even Documentation says
> touchscreen-max-[xy] and if the driver changed that, the driver should
> be fixed too. Besides, it seems like this has been in tree since v3.16:
> 
> $ git describe a38cfebb56898633687ab337fd53710e63a0aedd
> v3.15-rc5-72-ga38cfebb5689
> 
> So, because this has been wrongly documented for so long, we should
> support both bindings. Sure, deprecate touchscreen-max-[xy], but they
> must still be supported, IMO.

This property has never been anything but a typo in a documentation of
a single driver.

Feel free to fix that in that driver, but I don't see why the core
code should handle that isolated typo.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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