Re: [PATCH 2/2] HID: multitouch: enable the Surface 3 Type Cover to report multitouch data

[Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>]

On May 13 2016 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 16:49 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > On May 13 2016 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 16:12 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > There is no reasons to filter out keyboard and consumer control
> > > > collections
> > > > in hid-multitouch.
> > > > With the previous hid-input fix, there is now a full support of
> > > > the
> > > > Type
> > > > Cover and we can remove all specific bits from hid-core and hid-
> > > > microsoft.
> > > > 
> > > > hid-multitouch will automatically set HID_QUIRK_NO_INIT_REPORTS so
> > > > we
> > > > can
> > > > also remove it from the list of ushbid quirks.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > > Andy, would you mind checking if this series is sufficient to
> > > > enable
> > > > the
> > > > TypeCover of the Surface Book?
> > > Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Noticed little difference that there is no event for the device
> > > anymore,
> > > just /dev/usb/hiddev0. Would it work properly under X?
> > Not sure what you mean.
> > I get 3 input nodes:
> > Microsoft Surface Type Cover Keyboard
> > Microsoft Surface Type Cover Consumer Control
> > Microsoft Surface Type Cover Touchpad
> > 
> > Each on this input device is properly assigned an event node and X
> > works
> > with them.
> > 
> > If there is no /dev/input/eventX created for your cover, then this is
> > not normal and needs to be investigated.
> 
> There is no /dev/input/eventX for the touchpad. 
> It prints that input device is under /usb.../input8, but the actual node
> I got events from is /dev/usb/hiddev0.
> 

Hmm, have you also applied 1/2?

If so, please can you provide me the hid-recorder[1] output of the type
cover?

Cheers,
Benjamin

[1] http://bentiss.github.io/hid-replay-docs/