[PATCH v3] input: touchscreen: Remove duplicate ft6236 driver

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 19:22:43 PDT 2016


On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:07:20PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Am 05.08.2016 um 09:24 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> >The new(ish) ft6236 simply re-implements the M09 protocol of the
> >(much) older edt-ft5x06.c driver.
> >
> >This commit removes this duplicate driver and adds the i2c ids and
> >dt compatible string to the edt-ft5x06.c driver to keep compatibility.
> 
> i think only remove of the driver is incorrect here.
> 
> Since there are two similar but still different DT bindings
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.txt
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/focaltech-ft6236.txt
> 
> the DT handling of edt-ft5x06.c needs to be extended and then
> finally driver and binding could be removed.

I believe Hans made sure edt-ft5x06.c can handle focaltech-ft6236
bindings. Do you see a discrepancy?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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