On 8 May 2015 at 07:23, Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wait a little bit longer, 50mS instead of 20mS, until the driver
> starts polling for pen-up. The problematic behavior before this
> patch is applied is as follows. The behavior was observed on the
> STMPE610QTR controller.
>
> Upon a physical pen-down event, the touchscreen reports one set
> of x-y-p coordinates and a pen-down event. After that, the pen-up
> polling is triggered and since the controller is not ready yet,
> the polling mistakenly detects a pen-up event while the physical
> state is still such that the pen is down on the touch surface.
>
> The pen-up handling flushes the controller FIFO, so after that,
> all the samples in the controller are discarded. The controller
> becomes ready shortly after this bogus pen-up handling and does
> generate again a pen-down interrupt. This time, the controller
> contains x-y-p samples which all read as zero. Since pressure
> value is zero, this set of samples is effectively ignored by
> userland.
>
> In the end, the driver just bounces between pen-down and bogus
> pen-up handling, generating no useful results. Fix this by giving
> the controller a bit more time before polling it for pen-up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vipul Kumar Samar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/stmpe-ts.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
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