Re: [PATCH 6/8] minnowboard-keys: Bind MinnowBoard buttons to arrow keys

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:28:07AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 11:46 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 18:53 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: 
> > > Configure the four buttons tied to the E6XX GPIO lines on the
> > > MinnowBoard as keys using the gpio-keys-polled platform driver. From
> > > left to right, bind them to LEFT, DOWN, UP, RIGHT, similar to the VI
> > > directional keys.
> > > 
> > > This is separate from the minnowboard driver to provide users with the
> > > flexibility to write kernel drivers for their own devices using these GPIO
> > > lines.
> > 
> > I'm repeating my comment I did early to you.
> > 
> > I think this driver is a wrong approach, since you just use
> > gpio_keys_polling with custom platform data. So, it should go to the
> > platform code / board file under arch/x86/platform/minnow/...
> 
> 
> Olof mentinoed something similar. The reason this is separate is that I
> can easily see someone wanting to use these buttons in a different way
> when integrating the MinnowBoard into some kind of product. The
> minnowboard.c driver sets up the fixed functionality GPIO lines, such as
> the LEDs (which can be easily reconfigured via triggers) while this
> driver serves as an example of how the GPIO buttons could be used as
> keys, but if included in the minnowboard driver, users couldn't get the
> fixed functionality without also tying up these GPIO lines.
> 
> I could remedy that with driver command-line options, but I know I've
> heard Greg KH discourage their use in the past.

Ick, yes, never do that type of thing as a command-line option, that's
what device-tree is for :)

thanks,

greg k-h