Re: [PATCH 2/2] input: add driver for S1 button of rb532

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Phil Sutter wrote:
> Mikrotik's Routerboard 532 has two builtin buttons, from which one
> triggers a hardware reset. The other one is accessible through GPIO pin
> 1. Sadly, this pin is being multiplexed with UART0 input, so enabling it
> as interrupt source (as implied by the gpio-keys driver) is not possible
> unless UART0 has been turned off. The later one though is a rather bad
> idea as the Routerboard is an embedded device with only a single serial
> port, so it's almost always used as serial console device.
> 
> This patch adds a driver based on INPUT_POLLDEV, which disables the UART
> and reconfigures GPIO pin 1 temporarily while reading the button state.
> This procedure works fine and has been tested as part of another,
> unpublished driver for this device.

What happens when you receive UART input while the UART is disabled? Is it
lost?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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