linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix gpio-keys debouncing and timer sleep issues

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Message-ID: <20090629055940.GC12821@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:59:40 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com>
Cc:	alek.du@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, soni.trilok@...il.com,
	ben-linux@...ff.org, ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix gpio-keys debouncing and timer sleep issues

Hi Jani,

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:15:16PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Alek, someone might depend on how debouncing worked before, so let's not 
> break it. I, for one, am looking at using this in the future, and would 
> want this to work as it was before.
> 
> Why don't we fix this instead of debating? For simplicity, here's first 
> a revert of the original patch and then a fix to the sleep issue. 
> Unfortunately, I do not have the equipment to properly test this right 
> now.
> 

I intend to apply the both patches. It is unfortunate that we need to
use both a timer and a workqueue, I wonder what would it take to
implement something like reschedule_delayed_work() that would adjust
the delay in the same fashion that mod_timer() does?

-- 
Dmitry
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