On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 January 2016 08:13 PM, Rob Herring wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 05:02:50PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >>> >>> Add support from DT to name the gpio-keys driver to have >>> desired key name for this input system. >>> >>> This helps userspace code to get name and perform proper >>> event to key mapping in some of cases. In android, the >>> user space map the key code to application code using >>> key character layout and for this it uses the name of >>> input system. >> >> Why is specifying the key code not enough? > > > This is the name for input system instead of individual keys. > In android system, the key mapping is done in user space. By having name > offers to specifying the customized key character layout instead of generic > one form android which is fall-back. Okay, got it. >>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/gpio-keys.txt | 1 + >>> drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c | 2 ++ >>> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/gpio-keys.txt >>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/gpio-keys.txt >>> index cf1333d..2e6bcd2 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/gpio-keys.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/gpio-keys.txt >>> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Required properties: >>> - compatible = "gpio-keys"; >>> Optional properties: >>> + - gpio-keys,name: String, name of the gpio-keys input system. >> >> gpio-keys is not a vendor. >> >> Would "label" work for you instead? > > > "label" means node name? No, the standard label property. See gpio-leds for an example. >> Either way, I'm concerned this doesn't work for other key bindings >> which have multiple keys. >> >> > > This is not for the individual keys, its for input system like > /sys/class/input/input0/name. So label is exactly for this purpose of defining user meaningful names. Rob -- 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
