Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Subject: [PATCH v3 0/7] Input: synaptics-rmi4: add quirks for third party touchscreen controllers

[David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>]

Hello Caleb,

I'm very sorry about that. Next time I include your patches in the 
series I'll definitely send you heads up.

David

On 10/03/2025 11:04, Caleb Connolly wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Please at least give me a heads up if you're going to resend a patch 
> series of mine. I understand it's an old series but I don't think that 
> courtesy is too much to ask.
> 
> On 3/8/25 14:08, David Heidelberg via B4 Relay wrote:
>> With the growing popularity of running upstream Linux on mobile devices,
>> we're beginning to run into more and more edgecases. The OnePlus 6 is a
>> fairly well supported 2018 era smartphone, selling over a million units
>> in it's first 22 days. With this level of popularity, it's almost
>> inevitable that we get third party replacement displays, and as a
>> result, replacement touchscreen controllers.
>>
>> The OnePlus 6 shipped with an extremely usecase specific touchscreen
>> driver, it implemented only the bare minimum parts of the highly generic
>> rmi4 protocol, instead hardcoding most of the register addresses.
>> As a result, the third party touchscreen controllers that are often
>> found in replacement screens, implement only the registers that the
>> downstream driver reads from. They additionally have other restrictions
>> such as heavy penalties on unaligned reads.
>> This series attempts to implement the necessary workaround to support
>> some of these chips with the rmi4 driver. Although it's worth noting
>> that at the time of writing there are other unofficial controllers in
>> the wild that don't work even with these patches.
>> We have been shipping these patches in postmarketOS for the last several
>> months, and they are known to not cause any regressions on the OnePlus
>> 6/6T (with the official Synaptics controller), however I don't own any
>> other rmi4 hardware to further validate this.
>>
>> ---
>> Changes since v2:
>> - reworded dt-bindings property description
>> - fixed the rmi_driver_of_probe definition for non device-tree builds.
>> - fixed some indentation issues reported by checkpatch
>> - change rmi_pdt_entry_is_valid() variable to unsigned
>> - Link to v2: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/ 
>> cover/20230929-caleb-rmi4-quirks-v2-0-b227ac498d88@linaro.org/
> 
> Please use lore links
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - Improve dt-bindings patch (thanks Rob)
>> - Add missing cast in patch 5 to fix the pointer arithmetic
>> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230929-caleb-rmi4-quirks- 
>> v1-0-cc3c703f022d@linaro.org
>>
>> ---
>> Caleb Connolly (2):
>>        dt-bindings: input: syna,rmi4: document syna,pdt-fallback-desc
>>        Input: synaptics-rmi4 - handle duplicate/unknown PDT entries
>>
>> methanal (5):
>>        Input: synaptics-rmi4 - f12: use hardcoded values for 
>> aftermarket touch ICs
>>        Input: synaptics-rmi4 - f55: handle zero electrode count
>>        Input: synaptics-rmi4 - don't do unaligned reads in IRQ context
>>        Input: synaptics-rmi4 - read product ID on aftermarket touch ICs
>>        Input: synaptics-rmi4 - support fallback values for PDT 
>> descriptor bytes
>>
>>   .../devicetree/bindings/input/syna,rmi4.yaml       |  18 +++
>>   drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c                    | 140 +++++++++++ 
>> ++++++----
>>   drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.h                    |   8 ++
>>   drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f01.c                       |  14 +++
>>   drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f12.c                       | 117 +++++++++++ 
>> ++----
>>   drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f55.c                       |   5 +
>>   include/linux/rmi.h                                |   3 +
>>   7 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>> ---
>> base-commit: 0a2f889128969dab41861b6e40111aa03dc57014
>> change-id: 20250308-synaptics-rmi4-c832b2f73ceb
>>
>> Best regards,
> 

-- 
David Heidelberg