Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:08:45 -0800 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpio: export 'debounce' attribute if supported by the gpio chip |
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:37:35AM -0800, anish singh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Guenter Roeck > <groeck-dsl@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:04:09AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > >> > >> >> I could imagine declaring the activity request buttons to be "input", but for > >> >> presence detects it is a bit far fetched and would add too much complexity. > >> > > >> > Android tries to address this with its switch class driver, but I'm not > >> > sure its actually got anything over making them input devices. > >> > >> This has actually been merged into the kernel proper as drivers/extcon. > >> > >> So another poke on Günther if this fulfills the needs? > >> > > I'll look into it. Currently I am hampered by a cold which seems to mug my > > brain, and technically by the need to backport extcon to 3.0 (if that is even > > possible) since our chip vendor does not yet support a more recent kernel. > It is very much possible.I have already tried that and it works.
Confirmed.
Looks like this is going to work for me, so I won't need the gpio patch. Please ignore it.
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