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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: felipe.balbi@nokia.com,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] gpiolib: introduce set_debounce method
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:34:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100521143432.5de6ebec@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <396934.73027.qm@web180307.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

> One of the earlier examples of why to want debouncing (in the
> original discussion, not this one) was for buttons (one signal
> per button press) and the hardware designers don't necessarily
> hook buttons up to only GPIOs with hardware debounce.  So code
> to kick in debounce there needed to be sensitive to whether or
> not the capability was available ... and moreover, whether the
> debounce scale was adequate to compensate the contact chatter.
> When not, then software debounce was inescapable.

And someone who needs it can contribute it. The proposed patch causes no
problems in this area.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 10:02 [PATCH 0/6] teach gpiolib about gpio debouncing felipe.balbi
2010-05-17 10:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] gpiolib: introduce set_debounce method felipe.balbi
2010-05-20 18:06   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-20 18:52     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-05-20 19:04     ` Alan Cox
2010-05-20 19:16       ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-20 20:51         ` Alan Cox
2010-05-20 19:45   ` Mark Brown
2010-05-20 22:50     ` David Brownell
2010-05-20 22:50       ` David Brownell
2010-05-21  6:49       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-05-21 10:11         ` Alan Cox
2010-05-21 13:14           ` David Brownell
2010-05-21 13:34             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-05-21 13:23         ` David Brownell
2010-05-21 13:23           ` David Brownell
2010-05-21 10:05     ` Alan Cox
2010-05-17 10:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm: omap: gpio: implement " felipe.balbi
2010-05-17 10:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: omap: switch over to gpio_set_debounce felipe.balbi
2010-06-16 17:26   ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2010-06-17  4:45     ` Felipe Balbi
2010-06-20 17:03       ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2010-06-20 21:12         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-05-17 10:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: omap: remove the unused omap_gpio_set_debounce methods felipe.balbi
2010-05-17 10:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm: omap: move all gpio defines to plat/gpio.h felipe.balbi
2010-05-17 10:08   ` Felipe Balbi
2010-05-20 18:04 ` [PATCH 0/6] teach gpiolib about gpio debouncing Andrew Morton
2010-05-20 18:55   ` Felipe Balbi

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