Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: soc_button_array - add support for Microsoft Surface 3 (MSHW0028) buttons

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:02:40PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> The drivers/platform/surface/surface3_button.c code is alsmost a 1:1 copy
> of the soc_button_array code.
> 
> The only big difference is that it binds to an i2c_client rather then to
> a platform_device. The cause of this is the ACPI resources for the MSHW0028
> device containing a bogus I2cSerialBusV2 resource which causes the kernel
> to instantiate an i2c_client for it instead of a platform_device.
> 
> Add "MSHW0028" to the ignore_serial_bus_ids[] list in drivers/apci/scan.c,
> so that a platform_device will be instantiated and add support for
> the MSHW0028 HID to soc_button_array.
> 
> This fully replaces surface3_button, which will be removed in a separate
> commit (since it binds to the now no longer created i2c_client it no
> longer does anyyhing after this commit).
> 
> Note the MSHW0028 id is used by Microsoft to describe the tablet buttons on
> both the Surface 3 and the Surface 3 Pro and the actual API/implementation
> for the Surface 3 Pro is quite different. The changes in this commit should
> not impact the separate surfacepro3_button driver:
> 
> 1. Because of the bogus I2cSerialBusV2 resource problem that driver binds
>    to the acpi_device itself, so instantiating a platform_device instead of
>    an i2c_client does not matter.
> 
> 2. The soc_button_array driver will not bind to the MSHW0028 device on
>    the Surface 3 Pro, because it has no GPIO resources.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>

Please feel free to merge through platform tree.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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