Re: [PATCH] Input: tca6416-keypad - Add OF support for driver instantiation

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Jun 11 2025 - 13:44:36 EST


On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Tomas Jurena wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 01:15:42PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 05:46:10PM +0200, Tomáš Juřena wrote:
> > > From: Tomas Jurena <jurenatomas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Adds support for instantiating the tca6416-keypad driver via
> > > Device Tree. If no platform data is present, the driver can now be
> > > probed based on OF bindings.
> > >
> > > A corresponding Device Tree binding document is added at:
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/tca6416-keypad.yaml
> > >
> > > This allows the driver to be used in systems that rely solely on the
> > > Device Tree for hardware description, such as embedded ARM platforms.
> > >
> > > Tested on Toradex Ixora 1.3A board and Apalis imx8 SOM.
> >
> > We already have a GPIO driver for this chip. Would the
> > gpio-keys driver work here instead? Seems to work for
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/ti/omap/am3517-evm-ui.dtsi.
> >
> I was not aware of this. Anyway, I tested this today, and it seems to work just fine with my hardware. There is no need for this change from my side.

I wonder if we should simply remove tca6416-keypad driver. I guess it
was created before we has a gpio driver for this block.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry