[PATCH v4 0/4] Input: support overlay objects on touchscreens

[Javier Carrasco]

Some touchscreens are shipped with a physical layer on top of them where
a number of buttons and a resized touchscreen surface might be available.

In order to generate proper key events by overlay buttons and adjust the
touch events to a clipped surface, these patches offer a documented,
device-tree-based solution by means of helper functions.
An implementation for a specific touchscreen driver is also included.

The functions in ts-overlay provide a simple workflow to acquire
physical objects from the device tree, map them into the device driver
structures as overlay objects and generate events according to
the object descriptions.

This feature has been tested with a JT240MHQS-E3 display, which consists
of an st1624 as the base touchscreen and an overlay with two buttons and
a frame that clips its effective surface mounted on it.

Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v4:
- General: rename "touchscreen" to "touch" to include other consumers.
- PATCH 1/4: move touch-overlay feature to input core.
- PATCH 1/4, 3/4: set key caps and report key events without consumer's
  intervention.
- PATCH 2/4: add missing 'required' field with the required properties.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-v3-0-b4fb7fc4bab7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v3:
- General: rename "virtobj" and "virtual" to "overlay"
- PATCH 1/4: Make feature bool instead of tristate (selected by
  supported touchscreens)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-v2-0-f68a6bfe7a0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- PATCH 1/4: remove preprocessor directives (the module is selected by
  the drivers that support the feature). Typo in the commit message.
- PATCH 2/4: more detailed documentation. Images and examples were added.
- PATCH 3/4: select ts-virtobj automatically.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-v1-0-5ae5e81bc264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Javier Carrasco (4):
      Input: touch-overlay - Add touchscreen overlay object handling
      dt-bindings: touchscreen: add overlay-touchscreen and overlay-buttons properties
      Input: st1232 - add touch overlays handling
      dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: st1232: add example with touch-overlay

 .../input/touchscreen/sitronix,st1232.yaml         |  40 +++
 .../bindings/input/touchscreen/touchscreen.yaml    | 152 ++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   7 +
 drivers/input/Makefile                             |   2 +-
 drivers/input/touch-overlay.c                      | 399 +++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/input/touchscreen/st1232.c                 |  70 +++-
 include/linux/input/touch-overlay.h                |  34 ++
 7 files changed, 689 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 06c2afb862f9da8dc5efa4b6076a0e48c3fbaaa5
change-id: 20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-e267540aae74

Best regards,
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Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>