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-...@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 <a...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/