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On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:58:19 -0800
anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:49 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I could imagine declaring the activity request buttons to be "input", but for
> > > presence detects it is a bit far fetched and would add too much complexity.
> > 
> > Android tries to address this with its switch class driver, but I'm not
> > sure its actually got anything over making them input devices.
> 
> Sorry for not understanding the context here.How the debounce sysfs
> added by Guenter has anything to do with switch driver in android?

The other more general option is to make the input layer do the debounce
and make them all inputs rather than just relying on any gpio layer
support.