From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: export 'debounce' attribute if supported by the gpio chip
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:08:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213170845.GA11145@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7N6vq8+H=Y1hD0vMEEiY6CtGkZivnmDKiwiuG12s9kf7y5qw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:37:35AM -0800, anish singh wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Guenter Roeck
> <groeck-dsl@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:04:09AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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.
> >>
> >> This has actually been merged into the kernel proper as drivers/extcon.
> >>
> >> So another poke on Günther if this fulfills the needs?
> >>
> > I'll look into it. Currently I am hampered by a cold which seems to mug my
> > brain, and technically by the need to backport extcon to 3.0 (if that is even
> > possible) since our chip vendor does not yet support a more recent kernel.
> It is very much possible.I have already tried that and it works.
Confirmed.
Looks like this is going to work for me, so I won't need the gpio patch. Please
ignore it.
Thanks,
Guenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 6:32 Guenter Roeck
2012-12-07 8:07 ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-07 14:59 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-12-07 16:20 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-12-07 16:49 ` Alan Cox
2012-12-09 9:58 ` anish kumar
2012-12-09 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2012-12-09 17:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-12-09 22:36 ` Grant Likely
2012-12-10 10:11 ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-10 10:04 ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-10 18:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-12-10 19:37 ` anish singh
2012-12-13 17:08 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
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