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

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi,

> Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> hat am 6. August 2016 um 12:00
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 06-08-16 04:22, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Correct I've double checked that both the i2c protocol and the
> reset gpio binding are compatible. Devices using the focaltech-ft6236.txt
> binding should work fine with the edt-ft5x06.c driver.

i missed the point about touchscreen_parse_properties() and it's properties.
Sorry for the noise. Everything okay.

> 
> Now if someone can test and confirm that on actual hardware that would be
> great...
> 
> And we probably want to remove
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/focaltech-ft6236.txt
> and instead add the compatible string that defines to
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.txt
> 

That would be great.

Stefan

> I can whip up a patch for that, but as said some testing on actual
> hw would be good, preferably before I write said patch.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
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> p.s.
> 
> (the v3 in the subject is bogus my bad)