On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:34:32AM +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:34:33AM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 02:14:30PM +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote: > > > In case of devicetree, we currently don't have a way to append pdata for > > > the touchscreen. The current approach is to bail out in that case. > > > This patch makes it possible to probe the touchscreen without pdata > > > and use zero as default values for the atox and ato adc conversion. > > Would that still make the touchscreen somehow functional ? > > Yes, it still works. It just defaults to zero values in no pdata case. > > > If that's the case, and if Dmitry is fine with the ts part of this > > patch, could you please separate the mfd part of this patch into a > > separate one ? > > Why? > > The purpose of this patch is to have both cases working, pdata and no > pdata.
My concern with allowing defaults with missing pdata or device tree data is that it makes it easy for the integrator to miss the necessity of the parameters and then start piling on driver workarounds. I have seen a few examples of this happening, so I'd rather prefer an explicit values if possible. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
