[PATCH v3 01/11] Documentation: Correction in HID output_report callback description.

Jingyuan Liang
2026-04-02T01:59:42Z

From: Jarrett Schultz <jaschultz@microsoft.com>

Originally output_report callback was described as must-be asynchronous,
but that is not the case in some implementations, namely i2c-hid.
Correct the documentation to say that it may be asynchronous.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmanti@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jingyuan Liang <jingyliang@chromium.org>
---
Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst b/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst
index 6f1692da296c..2008cf432af1 100644
--- a/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst
@@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ The available HID callbacks are:

Send raw output report via intr channel. Used by some HID device drivers
which require high throughput for outgoing requests on the intr channel. This
- must not cause SET_REPORT calls! This must be implemented as asynchronous
- output report on the intr channel!
+ must not cause SET_REPORT calls! This call might be asynchronous, so the
+ caller should not expect an immediate response!

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