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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: Add Nintendo extension controller driver
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:44:18 +0100
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:38:24AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 05:04:37PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this patch?  Can you send it on to Linus?
> > 
> 
> I thought I responded earlier but apparently not...
> 
> The issue with the driver is that it pre-registers an input device with
> a super-set of capabilities instead of waiting until the device is
> properly identified and registering input device with the exact
> capabilities.
> 
> The input policy is that device's stated capabilities should match the
> physical device (within the constraints of input framework).

Okay, that's solvable.  I'll rework and repost with a goal to merge in v3.2

g.