From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Walmsley Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] usbhid: add load-time and run-time USB HID quirks configuration Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:45:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Jiri, On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote: > What is your opinion on an alternative aproach - the hid_blacklist[] could > stay intact, and the linked list in your patch will be used in a slightly > different way - it will be used to define *exceptions* (which will be > possible to be tuned in runtime) from hid_blacklist, rather than > duplicating the information which is already present there? That approach makes a lot of sense. It provides runtime configurability, without the added memory costs involved with a big linked list or the product mask. The best of both worlds. > Anyway, I think that the possibility to modify the hid_blakclist[] in > runtime could be useful. If you agree with the above and would care to > redo the pathces in such way, I would be inclined to merge them. Sounds good, I'll redo the patches. - Paul