Re: [RFC ebeam PATCH v3 1/2] hid: Blacklist new eBeam classic device

[Yann Cantin <yann.cantin@laposte.net>]

Le 07/08/2012 00:07, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
> On Monday, August 06, 2012 02:43:40 PM Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:21:43PM +0200, Yann Cantin wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Yann Cantin <yann.cantin@laposte.net>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c |    3 +++
>>>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h  |    3 +++
>>>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
>>> index 60ea284..b1ed8ee 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
>>> @@ -1908,6 +1908,9 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_ignore_list[]
>>> = {> 
>>>  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_DELORME, USB_DEVICE_ID_DELORME_EM_LT20)
>>>  	},
>>>  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_DREAM_CHEEKY, 0x0004) },
>>>  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_DREAM_CHEEKY, 0x000a) },
>>>
>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_INPUT_EBEAM_USB)
>>> +	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_EFI, USB_DEVICE_ID_EFI_CLASSIC) },
>>> +#endif
>>
>> Why is this #if in here?  Just always do it, how could it not be
>> defined?
> 
> User might disable the driver and CONFIG_INPUT_EBEAM_USB will not be
> set. But I agree, since the device is unusable with generic HID driver
> there is no point in doing this conditionally.

There's a closed-source user-space stack (libusb based daemon + xorg driver
+ wine apps) provided for some distro (Ubuntu 10.04, works on mandriva 2010,
maybe others but break on recent xorg).

I don't know exactly what to do : i don't want to break hypothetical support,
even proprietary.
Leaving the choice at kernel compile time seems to be safer, no ?

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Yann Cantin
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