Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: gpio_keys - Also send release events for ABS codes

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 12:23:43 EST


On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:25:03AM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> Right now, the gpio-keys driver is mostly used with EV_KEY event types.
> However, this driver (and its devicetree bindings) support specifying
> a different input type, like EV_ABS, even though this doesn't work in
> practice: "key pressed" events are correctly received and treated, but
> "key released" are silently ignored.
>
> With this commit, keys configured as EV_ABS will inject an event with
> the value 0 when released.

No, this will break setups like this:

gpio0 - ABS_X - 0
gpio1 - ABS_X - 1
gpio2 - ABS_X - 2
...
gpio7 - ABS_X - 7

- something like a slider built on top of gpios.

>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
> index 2909365..7018c49 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c
> @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ static void gpio_keys_gpio_report_event(struct gpio_button_data *bdata)
> if (type == EV_ABS) {
> if (state)
> input_event(input, type, button->code, button->value);
> + else
> + input_event(input, type, button->code, 0);
> } else {
> input_event(input, type, button->code, !!state);
> }
> --
> 2.9.3
>

Thanks.

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Dmitry