Hi, On 6/6/23 20:12, Neil Armstrong wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/06/2023 17:31, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Hi Neil, >> >> On 6/6/23 16:31, Neil Armstrong wrote: >>> These touchscreen ICs support SPI, I2C and I3C interface, up to >>> 10 finger touch, stylus and gestures events. >>> >>> This initial driver is derived from the Goodix goodix_ts_berlin >>> available at [1] and [2] and only supports the GT9916 IC >>> present on the Qualcomm SM8550 MTP & QRD touch panel. >>> >>> The current implementation only supports BerlinD, aka GT9916. >>> >>> Support for advanced features like: >>> - Firmware & config update >>> - Stylus events >>> - Gestures events >>> - Previous revisions support (BerlinA or BerlinB) >>> is not included in current version. >>> >>> The current support will work with currently flashed firmware >>> and config, and bail out if firmware or config aren't flashed yet. >> >> What I'm missing here / in the commit msg of >> "input: touchscreen: add core support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC" >> >> is an explanation why this is a new driver instead of adding >> support to the existing goodix.c code. >> >> I assume you have good reasons for this, but it would be good >> if you can write the reasons for this down. > > Sure, should I write it down here and/or update the commit message in a new revision ? Yes please add this to the commit msg for the next version. > Anyway, here's the reasons: > - globally the event handling "looks like" the current goodix.c, but again the offsets > are again different and none of the register address are the same, and unlike the current > support all registers are provided by the "ic_info" structure > - while with the current code it *could* be possible to merge it, with a lot of changes, > the firmware management looks really different, and it would be really hard to merge. > > But I may be wrong, and may be misleaded by the goodix driver structure (even if it > went through a really heavy cleaning process). No doing a new separate driver sounds about right to me. The current goodix driver already has a lot of different code-paths. So since there does not seem to be a whole lot of code sharing potential adding yet more special case handling / paths is not desirable IMHO. Regards, Hans >>> [1] https://github.com/goodix/goodix_ts_berlin >>> [2] https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/la/platform/vendor/opensource/touch-drivers >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> Neil Armstrong (4): >>> dt-bindings: input: document Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC >>> input: touchscreen: add core support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC >>> input: touchscreen: add I2C support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC >>> input: touchscreen: add SPI support for Goodix Berlin Touchscreen IC >>> >>> .../bindings/input/touchscreen/goodix-berlin.yaml | 81 ++ >>> drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig | 33 + >>> drivers/input/touchscreen/Makefile | 3 + >>> drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin.h | 228 +++++ >>> drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin_core.c | 935 +++++++++++++++++++++ >>> drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin_i2c.c | 76 ++ >>> drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix_berlin_spi.c | 183 ++++ >>> 7 files changed, 1539 insertions(+) >>> --- >>> base-commit: 6db29e14f4fb7bce9eb5290288e71b05c2b0d118 >>> change-id: 20230606-topic-goodix-berlin-upstream-initial-ba97e8ec8f4c >>> >>> Best regards, >> >