> -----Original Message----- > From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: 08 October, 2015 16:01 > To: Tirdea, Irina > Cc: Dmitry Torokhov; Bastien Nocera; Aleksei Mamlin; linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mark Rutland; Purdila, Octavian; linux- > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/9] Input: goodix - reset device at init > > On Thursday 08 October 2015 12:18:37 Tirdea, Irina wrote: > > > From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@xxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: 08 October, 2015 13:54 > > > To: Tirdea, Irina > > > Cc: Dmitry Torokhov; Bastien Nocera; Aleksei Mamlin; linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mark Rutland; Purdila, Octavian; linux- > > > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/9] Input: goodix - reset device at init > > > > > > On Thursday 08 October 2015 13:19:28 Irina Tirdea wrote: > > > > After power on, it is recommended that the driver resets the device. > > > > The reset procedure timing is described in the datasheet and is used > > > > at device init (before writing device configuration) and > > > > for power management. It is a sequence of setting the interrupt > > > > and reset pins high/low at specific timing intervals. This procedure > > > > also includes setting the slave address to the one specified in the > > > > ACPI/device tree. > > > > > > > > This is based on Goodix datasheets for GT911 and GT9271 and on Goodix > > > > driver gt9xx.c for Android (publicly available in Android kernel > > > > trees for various devices). > > > > > > > > For reset the driver needs to control the interrupt and > > > > reset gpio pins (configured through ACPI/device tree). For devices > > > > that do not have the gpio pins declared, the functionality depending > > > > on these pins will not be available, but the device can still be used > > > > with basic functionality. > > > > > > > > For both device tree and ACPI, the interrupt gpio pin configuration is > > > > read from the "irq-gpio" property and the reset pin configuration is > > > > read from the "reset-gpio" property. For ACPI 5.1, named properties > > > > can be specified using the _DSD section. If there is no _DSD section > > > > in the ACPI table, the driver will fall back to using indexed gpio > > > > pins declared in the _CRS section. > > > > > > Would it help to use a plain "gpios" property here to always look > > > up the lines by index? > > > > > > > The problem with ACPI indexed gpios is that platforms declare the > > pins in random order. In this case we have some platforms that declare > > the interrupt pin first and others that declare the reset pin first. > > There is no way to differentiate between them so the only way to support > > these platforms is to pick a default and list all exceptions in the driver. > > My previous implementation did that with indexed gpios and dmi quirks. [1] > > > > This can be solved by using named gpios, which are available starting with ACPI 5.1. > > In this way we know exactly which is the interrupt pin and which is the reset pin > > and we do not need to add any additional exceptions to the driver. > > However, we still need to support the platforms that are already out there so > > we fall back to indexed gpios. > > > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/15/609 > > Right. > > > > > +/* > > > > + * Some platforms specify the gpio pins for interrupt and reset properly > > > > + * in ACPI, but cannot use the interrupt pin as output due to their specific > > > > + * HW configuration. > > > > + */ > > > > +static const struct dmi_system_id goodix_no_gpio_pins_support[] = { > > > > +#if defined(CONFIG_DMI) && defined(CONFIG_X86) > > > > + { > > > > + .ident = "Onda v975w", > > > > + .matches = { > > > > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "American Megatrends Inc."), > > > > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_UUID, > > > > + "03000200-0400-0500-0006-000700080009"), > > > > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "AMI Corporation"), > > > > + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "Aptio CRB"), > > > > + } > > > > + }, > > > > > > I think lists like this in drivers should be avoided if at all possible, > > > it just leads to other people adding their platform in the lists as > > > opposed to fixing their boot loaders. > > > > > > Can you find another way to detect at runtime whether it works, and > > > print a warning if it doesn't? > > > > I agree with you on this, but unfortunately I have not found a better way to do it. > > > > The main problem comes from the interrupt pin. This device uses the interrupt pin > > as output, which some platforms do not support (either due to the HW configuration > > or due to flagging it wrong in BIOS) [2] [3]. There is no error returned, just a warning > > in dmesg. > > > > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/28/851 > > [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/30/607 > > Would it be possible to combine those two and require future firmware to > use the named gpios if they want the proper reset, but fall back to not > doing it if they use an anonymous list of GPIOs? > Yes, that would work. I will send a new version that includes this change. Thanks, Irina > > > > + /* HIGH: 0x28/0x29, LOW: 0xBA/0xBB */ > > > > + error = gpiod_direction_output(ts->gpiod_int, ts->client->addr == 0x14); > > > > + if (error) > > > > + return error; > > > > > > If the "interrupt" gpio is used as an output, maybe it has the wrong > > > name? Is that the name from the goodix datasheet (that would be ok) > > > or something you picked? > > > > > > > This is from the goodix datasheet [4]. The pin that is used for receiving interrupts > > is also used as output (for reset and suspend procedures). > > > > [4] > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxCVOQS3ZymGfmJyY2RKbE5XbVlKNlktVTlwV0lxNEdxd2dzeWZER094cmJPVnMxN1F0Yzg&; > usp=sharing > > > > Ok. > > Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
