On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:29:03PM -0700, tecfacet wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am interested in the rotary encoder kernel driver. I am very new to
> this linux kernel driver thing.
>
> How do I pass the gpio and interrupt stuff to the kernel module.. I
> think it is thru the rotary_encoder.h file.. am I correct?
That should be done through the device tree these days. The binding is
documented in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/rotary-encoder.txt
in the kernel source tree.
> How does the information about encoder position etc get back to my
> user space program? How is debounce handled?
> I am a little confused. Is there an example of a complete working
> implementation? I need to figure this out for school.
Have a look at the evtest program for an example:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/evtest
Good luck,
Johan
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