Hi Dmitry, > Why do we need this new driver when we have gpio-keys driver that can be > configured to emit ABS_* events? >
As far as I can tell, there is no way to specify values for ABS-"keys" in the device tree binding. While both the device tree binding and the gpio-keys driver could possibly be adapted to support this, it makes sense to me to describe joysticks in a separate binding and keep the driver implementations apart. In addition to this, auto-repeat and the sys fs disable interface for individual keys does not make sense for joysticks. In my mind, keyboards and joysticks are different enough. Thanks for looking at this, Hans
