Re: [PATCH v3] Input: Add driver for GOODiX GTx5 series touchsereen

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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 06:32:28PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:

Hi Bastien,

  Thanks for your advises.

> Hey,
> 
> Very shallow review. There are tons of typos in the code and comments,
> including in the subject line for this patch ("touchsereen"), including
> "godix", "excuted", etc. Please run a spell-check over the whole patch,
> and have somebody review all the text.
> 
> On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 21:00 +0800, Wang Yafei wrote:
> > This driver is for GOODiX GTx5 series touchscreen controllers
> > such as GT8589, GT7589. This driver designed with hierarchial 
> 
> "hierarchical"
> 
> > structure,
> > for that can be modified to support subsequent controllers easily.
> > Some zones of the touchscreen can be set to buttons(according to the
> > hardware). That is why it handles button and multitouch events.
> > 
> > A brief description of driver structure
> > - Core Layer: This layer responsible for basic input events report,
> >   GPIO pinctrl, Interrupt, Power resources manager and submodules
> > manager.
> > - Hardware Layer: This layer responsible for controllers
> > initialization,
> >   irq handle as well as bus read/write.
> > - External Module Layer: This layer used for support more features
> >   such as firmware update, debug tools and gesture wakeup.
> 
> I think that the driver should be split up in multiple patches. The
> first one should handle the basics for the device (I'd say parity with
> the driver for the older models would be fine), then add the various
> features on top (firmware loading, gesture wakeup, etc.) as those
> features probably need more thought as to what the external APIs should
> be.

I have rechecked the code spell problems and in the [PATCH v4].
We have considered your suggestion carefully, and in the new patch
will only contains basic touch function. Other functions such as
fw_update, gesture update will be submitted separately, and device
preparatory description file patches is ready I will commit it soon.

> > Signed-off-by: Wang Yafei <wangyafei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Goodix driver that the kernel already have, is for our gt9xx series
> > touchscreen controllers. This new driver is for out new generation
> > touchscreen controllers, consider this two generations are very
> > different with each other. We wrote a new driver instead of make
> > a patch on the old driver.
> 
> You'll probably need a preparatory patch which makes changes to the
> description and KConfig for the old driver, spelling out exactly what
> the old driver supports, maybe renaming it.
> 
> You'll also need to decide whether the company is called GOODiX, GOODIX
> or Goodix, whether the new devices are "sunrise", "GTx5" or something
> else.
> 
> > Changes in v2:
> >  - replace touchscreen properties according to the description in
> >    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/touchscreen.tx
> > t
> >  - Droped all compat stuff for older kernels
> >  - Removed Android stuff (EARLY_SUSPEND, CONFIG_FB)
> 
> There's still an ifdef with "COMPAT" in the name, not sure compat with
> what.
> 
> >  - Use device_property_read_*  get device properties
> >  - use get-unaligned_*() API
> >  - Use dev_err() dev_dbg() for logging
> >  - remove pinctrl functions
> >  - remove some unused functions
> 
> Cheers
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