Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] Input: elants_i2c: Delay longer with reset asserted

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Thu Dec 08 2022 - 21:24:56 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:21 PM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 06:06:12PM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > The elan touchscreen datasheet says that the reset GPIO only needs to
> > be asserted for 500us in order to reset the regulator. The problem is
> > that some boards need a level shifter between the signals on the GPIO
> > controller and the signals on the touchscreen. All of these extra
> > components on the line can slow the transition of the signals. On one
> > board, we measured the reset line and saw that it took almost 1.8ms to
> > go low. Even after we bumped up the "drive strength" of the signal
> > from the default 2mA to 8mA we still saw it take 421us for the signal
> > to go low.
> >
> > In order to account for this let's lengthen the amount of time that we
> > keep the reset asserted. Let's bump it up from 500us to 5000us.
> > That's still a relatively short amount of time and is much safer.
> >
> > It should be noted that this fixes real problems. Case in point:
> > 1. The touchscreen power rail may be shared with another device (like
> > an eDP panel). That means that at probe time power might already be
> > on.
> > 2. In probe we grab the reset GPIO and assert it (make it low).
> > 3. We turn on power (a noop since it was already on).
> > 4. We wait 500us.
> > 5. We deassert the reset GPIO.
> >
> > With the above case and only a 500us delay we saw only a partial reset
> > asserted, which is bad. Giving it 5ms is overkill but feels safer in
> > case someone else has a different level shifter setup.
> >
> > Note that bumping up the delay to 5000 means that some configs yell
> > about using udelay(). We'll change to using usleep_range(). We give a
> > small range here because:
> > - This isn't a delay that happens very often so we don't need to worry
> > about giving a big range to allow for power efficiency.
> > - usleep_range() is known to almost always pick the upper bound and
> > delay that long and we really don't want to slow down the power on
> > of the touchscreen that much.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Fix typo in commit message (Matthias)
> > - udelay -> usleep_range (Patches Robot, Dmitry)
> >
> > drivers/input/touchscreen/elants_i2c.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Ah, right. I posted it against the Qualcomm tree which, of course,
doesn't have the previous patch I posted to this driver. Thanks for
fixing it up. :-)