Re: [PATCH 1/3] Input: cyttsp - Cypress TTSP capacitive multi-touchscreen support

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Aug 22 2011 - 00:31:19 EST


Hi Javier,

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:01:50AM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Cypress TrueTouch(tm) Standard Product controllers are found in
> a wide range of embedded devices. This driver add support for a
> variety of TTSP controllers.
>
> The driver is composed of a core driver that process the data sent by
> the contacts and a set of bus specific interface modules. This patch
> adds the base core TTSP driver.
>
> The original author of the driver is Kevin McNeely <kev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since the hardware is capable of tracking identifiable contacts and the
> original driver used multi-touch protocol type A (stateless), multi-touch
> protocol type B (stateful) support was added by Javier Martinez Canillas.
>

Still reading through the patches, but have one question:

> +
> + ts->irq = gpio_to_irq(ts->platform_data->irq_gpio);
> + if (ts->irq <= 0) {
> + dev_dbg(ts->dev, "%s: Error, failed to allocate irq\n",
> + __func__);
> + goto error_init;
> + }

Why do we need to get gpio/irq from platform data instead of having
board code set up controllers appropriately and use IRQ either from I2C
client structure or from SPI?

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
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