Re: [PATCH 2/2] Input: ili210x - add ILI2117 support

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On 8/11/19 6:42 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 11:30:29PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 8/10/19 9:05 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 08:00:14PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 8/10/19 7:44 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 06:50:08PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/10/19 6:41 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Marek,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 03:17:04PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>> Add support for ILI2117 touch controller. This controller is similar
>>>>>>>> to the ILI210x and ILI251x, except for the following differences:
>>>>>>>> - Reading out of touch data must happen at most 300 mS after the
>>>>>>>>   interrupt line was asserted. No command must be sent, the data
>>>>>>>>   are returned upon pure I2C read of 43 bytes long.
>>>>>>>> - Supports 10 simultaneous touch inputs.
>>>>>>>> - Touch data format is slightly different.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So with this and also I see there is another ili2117a submission, I do
>>>>>>> believe that we need to switch to using function pointers instead of
>>>>>>> if/else if/else style cheking of the model.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How about we add tested functionality in first and only then do bigger
>>>>>> untested changes ? I think that would work better for everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I would really prefer to do what is right and build additional
>>>>> functionality on top of the good foundation. I asked to switch to the
>>>>> function pointers before, but you did not want to citing performance
>>>>> (even though we are using function pointers everywhere in the kernel),
>>>>> now I gave a draft implementation, I hope you can use it.
>>>>
>>>> So why can't we add tested code in first and then add new huge untested
>>>> patch on top and start testing it ? I think doing it in reverse is
>>>> actually not helpful, if there is a problem in this massive new patch,
>>>> it could be reverted without losing functionality.
>>>
>>> We still have 4 weeks till merge window + stabilization time past it.
>>
>> Sure, but this patch was posted 5 months ago and was in real world
>> deployment since, so it has 5 months of practical testing. I don't want
>> to throw that away.
>>
>> The patch you want me to test can easily be rebased on the ILI2117
>> support and then we retain those months of testing, which I think is
>> much better.
> 
> OK, fine, I rebased the patch[es] on top of this one and uploaded to:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git iili2xxx-touchscreen
> 
> Please give it a try and if it works I'll merge into next.

Sorry for the delay.

I had to revert
Input: ili210x - define and use chip operations structure
as with ^ I get no events.

The
Input: ili210x - switch to using threaded IRQ
seems to work.

Note that you forgot to apply
Input: ili210x - Add DT binding for the Ilitek ILI2117 touch controller

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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