Hi Stephen,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 08:33:33PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> If the device is a detachable, we may still probe this device because
> there are some button switches, e.g. volume buttons and power buttons,
> registered by this driver. Let's allow the device node to be missing row
> and column device properties to indicate that the keyboard matrix
> shouldn't be registered. This removes an input device on Trogdor devices
> such as Wormdingler that don't have a matrix keyboard, but still have
> power and volume buttons. That helps userspace understand there isn't
> a keyboard present when the detachable keyboard is disconnected.
>
> Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I tried to use mkbp info to query the number of rows and columns, but my
> EC firmware doesn't have commit 8505881ed0b9 ("mkbp: Separate MKBP_INFO
> host command from the keyboard driver") so it always returns 8 and 13
> for the rows and columns. Sigh. With updated firmware we could query it,
> or we could rely on DT like we do already.
>
> Originally I was setting the properties to 0, but
> matrix_keypad_parse_properties() spits out an error message in that case
> and so it seems better to delete the properties and check for their
> existence instead. Another alternative would be to change the compatible
> to be "google,cros-ec-keyb-switches" or something that indicates there
> are only switches and no matrix keyboard.
>
> drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c
> index 6534dfca60b4..ac9a953bff02 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c
> @@ -537,6 +537,15 @@ static int cros_ec_keyb_register_matrix(struct cros_ec_keyb *ckdev)
> u32 key_pos;
> unsigned int row, col, scancode, n_physmap;
>
> + /*
> + * No rows and columns? There isn't a matrix but maybe there are
> + * switches to register in cros_ec_keyb_register_bs() because this is a
> + * detachable device.
> + */
> + if (!device_property_read_bool(dev, "keypad,num-rows") &&
> + !device_property_read_bool(dev, "keypad,num-cols"))
Why are we abusing device_property_read_bool() for properties that are
not flags instead of using device_property_present()?
> + return 0;
> +
> err = matrix_keypad_parse_properties(dev, &ckdev->rows, &ckdev->cols);
> if (err)
> return err;
> --
> https://chromeos.dev
>
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
