Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] input: misc: Add generic input driver to read encoded GPIO lines

[Vignesh R]

On Wednesday 24 August 2016 01:33 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:27:59AM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 08/23/2016 01:16 AM, Vignesh R wrote:
>>> Add a driver to read group of GPIO lines and provide its status as a
>>> numerical value as input event to the system. This will help in
>>> intefacing devices, that can be connected over GPIOs, that provide input
>>> to the system by driving GPIO lines connected to them like a rotary dial
>>> or a switch.
>>>
>>> For example, a rotary switch can be connected to four GPIO lines. The
>>> status of the GPIO lines reflect the actual position of the rotary
>>> switch dial. For example, if dial points to 9, then the four GPIO lines
>>> connected to the switch will read HLLH(0b'1001 = 9). This value
>>> can be reported as an ABS_* event to the input subsystem.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> v2: Use decoder,max-value instead of gpio-decoder,max-value.
> 
> That's not what Rob asked for. "decoder-max-value", not "decoder" vendor
> prefix.
> 

Sorry.. Will fix this in v3.


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Regards
Vignesh