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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] AM335x-ICE: Add support for rotary switch
To: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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From: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:35:52 +0200
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Hi,

On 08/24/2016 09:58 AM, Vignesh R wrote:
> This series adds support for rotary-switch on AM335x-ICE that is
> connected to TI PCA9536 I2C GPIO expander.
> First patch adds new generic driver to read status of group of GPIO
> lines and report the value as an input event. The second patch adds DT
> entries for the same.
> 
> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/23/111
> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/12/7

Is there a reason why the rotary-encoder driver cannot handle this?
Commit 7dde4e74744 ("Input: rotary-encoder - support more than 2 gpios
as input") added support for that mode AFAIU.

I copied the author of that patch to have a look.


Thanks,
Daniel