Re: [PATCH v6] Touchscreen driver for FT5x06 based EDT displays

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Hi Henrik,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:34:12PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> > > I would very much prefer if the driver functioned well without
> > > such settings, since they complicate userspace and are not likely
> > > to ever go away. Oh well.
> > 
> > I would prefer to have the touchscreen adjust itself as well,
> > unfortunately this is not available and you definitely need different
> > settings depending for different touch setups.
> > 
> > Would an ioctl() be more acceptable? Would make it harder to adjust it
> > in startup scripts etc. though.
> 
> The format (ioctl, sysfs or whatnot) is of no consequence, it is the
> a) special handling of certain drivers and b) forcing userspace to
> tune the driver that makes maintenance problematic in the long
> run. With every screen project ending in its own solution, this
> quickly becomes a problem, both in the kernel and in
> userspace. Preventing such predicaments is my concern.

The issue here is that the parameters exposed are truly device-specific
and hard to standardize. We can try adding these parameters to the
platform data so board code could set them up for the users, but I can
see some users wanting to adjust the settings...

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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