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From: "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@gmail.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] HID: add have_special_driver hid module parameter
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:37:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120403163752.GA17048@polaris.bitmath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1204030807220.9041@pobox.suse.cz>

> > which makes me wonder if something will break or be called
> > unnecessarily often as a result?
> 
> I don't currently see how such thing could happen. Do you have anything 
> particular on your mind?

Only that there ought to have been a reason the flag was added in the
first place.

> > I think the main logic problem stems from viewing hid devices as being 
> > on the same level as usb/bt devices.  Perhaps report fixups should be 
> > part of the hid_ll_driver layer instead.
> 
> It probably should, yes. One of the reasons supporting this is that during 
> USB reset (for example), the descriptors are reread from the device, which 
> has a potential to cause a mismatch if a full rebind cycle is not 
> performed. (I have a patch in my queue that tries to fix this, but moving 
> the fixups to ll drivers is still something I will be considering).

Sounds good, it will also pave the way for the modalias patches.

Thanks,
Henrik

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20 21:29 [PATCH 1/1] HID: add have_special_driver hid module parameter Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-02-27 14:15 ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-02-28 14:30   ` Jiri Kosina
2012-02-28 15:12     ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-02-29 21:23     ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-03-29  8:00     ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-03-30 13:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-03-30 15:22   ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-03-30 23:03     ` David Herrmann
2012-04-01 19:44       ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-01 19:49         ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-01 20:11           ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-01 20:10         ` David Herrmann
2012-04-01 20:22           ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-01 19:33   ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-01 19:46     ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-01 20:50       ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-02 23:41         ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-04  8:27           ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-08 10:48           ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2012-04-03 14:46         ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-04-03 15:09           ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-03 16:37             ` Henrik Rydberg [this message]
2012-04-03 17:01               ` Jiri Kosina
2012-04-03 17:11                 ` Henrik Rydberg

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