Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC] HID bus design overview.

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Jiri,

> > I like this idea, but it might not solve the case where you have parts 
> > of the driver in kernel space and other parts in user space. For example 
> > the control of a LCD display on the keyboard. However in most cases 
> > registering drivers for a report id should be enough.
> 
> the specialized driver could hook on all reports of the device (as 
> discussed a few mails ago in this thread) and have the possibility to do 
> three different things with the obtained report:
> 
> - pass it back to generic hid driver for "standard" processing
> - process the report, and issue input_event() itself
> - pass it to hidraw and let userspace to consume it
> 
> This is going to work for the scenario you have described, right?

it will work. However I am not sure that is the best design. We need to
make one round-trip into an extra driver. We might gonna need these kind
of driver that hook in-between and does nasty things anyway, because of
broken HID devices.

The cleanest solution without a layer violation is that you can register
a driver for a specific VID/PID and then report id (one or more). All
reports with ids that we don't have a special driver for are handled by
the default HID->input driver or handed over to hidraw if not parseable.
The reports for ids with a special driver are handed over to the driver.

And for hidraw it would be nice if we can apply filters for specific
report ids to keep the round-trips and overhead at a minimum.

Regards

Marcel