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Re: [PATCH] Input: DT binding: Change touchscreen to touch for use with touchscreens and touchpads

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:42:45PM -0800, Andrew Duggan wrote:
> These generic touchscreen bindings can also be used for touchpads.
> Instead of creating new generic bindings this patch just renames then to
> touch-*.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Duggan <aduggan@synaptics.com>
> ---
> It was suggested that for the synaptics-rmi4 driver I use the generic
> bindings. But, since the rmi4 driver is used for both touchpads and
> touchscreens it seemed weird to have a touchpad with a parameter
> of touchscreen-inverted-y. I changed all of the references to it in the
> source tree. But, I realize this could cause a backwards compatibilty
> issue with device trees which are not included in the kernel.

It does and you cannot do this. Live with the weirdness or support both 
names...

Rob

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[PATCH] Input: DT binding: Change touchscreen to touch for use with touchscreens and touchpads Andrew Duggan <aduggan@synaptics.com> - 2016-01-15 00:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Input: DT binding: Change touchscreen to touch for use  with touchscreens and touchpads Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 04:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Input: DT binding: Change touchscreen to touch for use  with touchscreens and touchpads Andrew Duggan <aduggan@synaptics.com> - 2016-01-15 20:30 +0100

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