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This patch adds a generic driver for rotary encoders connected to GPIO pins of a system. It relies on gpiolib and generic hardware irqs. The documentation that also comes with this patch explains the concept and how to use the driver. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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rotary-encoder - a generic driver for GPIO connected devices
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Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>, Feb 2009
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0. Function
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Rotary encoders are devices which are connected to the CPU or other
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peripherals with two wires. The outputs are phase-shifted by 90 degrees
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and by triggering on falling and rising edges, the turn direction can
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be determined.
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The phase diagram of these two outputs look like this:
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_____ _____ _____
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Channel A ____| |_____| |_____| |____
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: : : : : : : : : : : :
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__ _____ _____ _____
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Channel B |_____| |_____| |_____| |__
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: : : : : : : : : : : :
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Event a b c d a b c d a b c d
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one step
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For more information, please see
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder
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1. Events / state machine
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a) Rising edge on channel A, channel B in low state
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This state is used to recognize a clockwise turn
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b) Rising edge on channel B, channel A in high state
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When entering this state, the encoder is put into 'armed' state,
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meaning that there it has seen half the way of a one-step transition.
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c) Falling edge on channel A, channel B in high state
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This state is used to recognize a counter-clockwise turn
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d) Falling edge on channel B, channel A in low state
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Parking position. If the encoder enters this state, a full transition
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should have happend, unless it flipped back on half the way. The
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'armed' state tells us about that.
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2. Platform requirements
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As there is no hardware dependent call in this driver, the platform it is
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used with must support gpiolib. Another requirement is that IRQs must be
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able to fire on both edges.
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3. Board integration
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To use this driver in your system, register a platform_device with the
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name 'rotary-encoder' and associate the IRQs and some specific platform
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data with it.
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struct rotary_encoder_platform_data is declared in
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include/linux/rotary-encoder.h and needs to be filled with the number of
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steps the encoder has and can carry information about externally inverted
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signals (because of used invertig buffer or other reasons).
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Because GPIO to IRQ mapping is platform specific, this information must
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be given in seperately to the driver. See the example below.
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---------<snip>---------
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/* board support file example */
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#include <linux/input.h>
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#include <linux/rotary_encoder.h>
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#define GPIO_ROTARY_A 1
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#define GPIO_ROTARY_B 2
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static struct rotary_encoder_platform_data my_rotary_encoder_info = {
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.steps = 24,
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.axis = ABS_X,
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.gpio_a = GPIO_ROTARY_A,
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.gpio_b = GPIO_ROTARY_B,
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.inverted_a = 0,
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.inverted_b = 0,
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};
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static struct platform_device rotary_encoder_device = {
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.name = "rotary-encoder",
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.id = 0,
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.dev = {
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.platform_data = &my_rotary_encoder_info,
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}
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};
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