Re: [PATCH] Input: DT binding: Change touchscreen to touch for use with touchscreens and touchpads

[Andrew Duggan]

Hi Rob,

On 01/14/2016 07:29 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:42:45PM -0800, Andrew Duggan wrote:
> > These generic touchscreen bindings can also be used for touchpads.
> > Instead of creating new generic bindings this patch just renames then to
> > touch-*.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Duggan <aduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > It was suggested that for the synaptics-rmi4 driver I use the generic
> > bindings. But, since the rmi4 driver is used for both touchpads and
> > touchscreens it seemed weird to have a touchpad with a parameter
> > of touchscreen-inverted-y. I changed all of the references to it in the
> > source tree. But, I realize this could cause a backwards compatibilty
> > issue with device trees which are not included in the kernel.
> It does and you cannot do this. Live with the weirdness or support both
> names...

Ok, I had a feeling this wouldn't go over well. I guess I'll try living 
with the weirdness for now.

Thanks,
Andrew

> Rob