Re: [PATCH 3/3] Input: mms114 - add support for mms345l

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 18:00:22 EST


On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 10:50:21PM +0200, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> MMS345L is another first generation touch screen from Melfas,
> which uses the same registers as MMS152.
>
> However, using I2C_M_NOSTART for it causes errors when reading:
>
> i2c i2c-0: sendbytes: NAK bailout.
> mms114 0-0048: __mms114_read_reg: i2c transfer failed (-5)
>
> The driver works fine as soon as I2C_M_NOSTART is removed.
>
> Add a separate melfas,mms345l binding, and make use of I2C_M_NOSTART
> only for MMS114 and MMS152.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note: I was not able to find a datasheet for any of the models,
> so this change is merely based on testing and comparison with
> the downstream driver [1].
>
> There was a related patch [2] that removes I2C_M_NOSTART for all models,
> but it seems abandoned and I do not have any other model for testing.
> Therefore, this patch implements the least instrusive solution
> and only removes I2C_M_NOSTART for MMS345L.

Hmm, at this point I am inclined to pick up Andi's patch since it seems
to work for you and him and it looks like Android drivers are not using
I2C_M_NOSTART. I wonder if this was some quirk/big on the platform where
it was originally developed.

Any objections?

Thanks.

--
Dmitry