[v11,0/4] Input: support overlay objects on touchscreens

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Javier Carrasco Oct. 16, 2024, 4:02 a.m. UTC

Some touchscreens are shipped with a physical layer on top of them where
a number of buttons and a resized touchscreen surface might be available.

In order to generate proper key events by overlay buttons and adjust the
touch events to a clipped surface, this series offers a documented,
device-tree-based solution by means of helper functions.
An implementation for a specific touchscreen driver is also included.

The functions in touch-overlay provide a simple workflow to acquire
physical objects from the device tree, map them into a list and generate
events according to the object descriptions.

This feature has been tested with a JT240MHQS-E3 display, which consists
of an st1624 as the base touchscreen and an overlay with two buttons and
a frame that clips its effective surface mounted on it.

To: Dmitry Torokhov <[e-mail]>
To: Rob Herring <[e-mail]>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[e-mail]>
To: Conor Dooley <[e-mail]>
To: Bastian Hecht <[e-mail]>
To: Michael Riesch <[e-mail]>
Cc: [e-mail]
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Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <[e-mail]>

Changes in v11:
- {touch-overlay,st1232}.c: work on assigned slots instead of positions
  retrieved by the sensor to account for those that don't track the
  contacts themselves.
- touch-overlay.c: do not emit sync and rely on the driver calling it.
- touch-overlay.c: use cleanup attribute for fwnode_handle *overlay.
- touch-overlay.c: simplify return paths in touch_overlay_map().
- touch-overlay.c: drop validity check in touch_overlay_segment_event()
  (internal function, not API).
- Link to v10: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v10:
- touch-overlay.c: use fwnode_for_each_available_child_node() macro as
  there is no point in adding unavailable objects.
- touch-overlay.c: initialize error in touch_overlay_map(), which would
  be returned uninitialized if there were no touch overlay segments.
- touch-overlay.c: fix fwnode_handle refcount (overlay must always be
  decremented before returning, fw_segment in error paths of the loop).
- Patch 4/4: update description (the feature does not add a second input
  device anymore).
- Link to v9: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v9:
- touch-overlay.c: trigger a button release if the finger slides out of
  the button segment to be consistent with the button press when sliding
  into a button segment (see touch_overlay_button_event()).
- touch-overlay.c: (nit) remove braces in if with a single statement in
  touch_overaly_process_event().
- Link to v8: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v8:
- touchscreen bindings: fix description formatting.
- Link to v7: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v7:
- General: return to a single input device implementation.
- touchscreen bindings: segment instead of button in the label
  description.
- touch-overlay.c: define button-specific data inside segment struct.
- touch-overlay.c: remove fwnode_property_present() and check return
  value of fwnode_property_read_u32() in touch_overlay_get_segment().
- touch-overlay.c: simplify return path in touch_overlay_map().
- Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v6:
- General: use a single list to manage a single type of object.
- General: swap patches to have bindings preceding the code.
- touch-overlay.c: minor code-sytle fixes.
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v5:
- touchscreen bindings: move overlay common properties to a $def entry (Rob Herring)
- st1232 bindings: move overlays to the existing example instead of
  making a new one (Rob Herring)
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v4:
- General: rename "touchscreen" to "touch" to include other consumers.
- PATCH 1/4: move touch-overlay feature to input core.
- PATCH 1/4, 3/4: set key caps and report key events without consumer's
  intervention.
- PATCH 2/4: add missing 'required' field with the required properties.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v3:
- General: rename "virtobj" and "virtual" to "overlay"
- PATCH 1/4: Make feature bool instead of tristate (selected by
  supported touchscreens)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Changes in v2:
- PATCH 1/4: remove preprocessor directives (the module is selected by
  the drivers that support the feature). Typo in the commit message.
- PATCH 2/4: more detailed documentation. Images and examples were added.
- PATCH 3/4: select ts-virtobj automatically.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

---
Javier Carrasco (4):
      dt-bindings: touchscreen: add touch-overlay property
      Input: touch-overlay - Add touchscreen overlay handling
      dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: st1232: add touch-overlay example
      Input: st1232 - add touch-overlay handling

 .../input/touchscreen/sitronix,st1232.yaml         |  29 +++
 .../bindings/input/touchscreen/touchscreen.yaml    | 119 +++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   7 +
 drivers/input/Makefile                             |   2 +-
 drivers/input/touch-overlay.c                      | 277 +++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/input/touchscreen/st1232.c                 |  35 ++-
 include/linux/input/touch-overlay.h                |  25 ++
 7 files changed, 485 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 9852d85ec9d492ebef56dc5f229416c925758edc
change-id: 20230510-feature-ts_virtobj_patch-e267540aae74

Best regards,