Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/6] Introduce eBPF support for HID devices

Bastien Nocera
2022-02-24T18:01:18Z

On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 12:31 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:08:22PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > This series introduces support of eBPF for HID devices.
> >
> > I have several use cases where eBPF could be interesting for those
> > input devices:
> >
> > - simple fixup of report descriptor:
> >
> > In the HID tree, we have half of the drivers that are "simple" and
> > that just fix one key or one byte in the report descriptor.
> > Currently, for users of such devices, the process of fixing them
> > is long and painful.
> > With eBPF, we could externalize those fixups in one external repo,
> > ship various CoRe bpf programs and have those programs loaded at
> > boot
> > time without having to install a new kernel (and wait 6 months for
> > the
> > fix to land in the distro kernel)
>
> Why would a distro update such an external repo faster than they
> update
> the kernel?  Many sane distros update their kernel faster than other
> packages already, how about fixing your distro?  :)
>
> I'm all for the idea of using ebpf for HID devices, but now we have
> to
> keep track of multiple packages to be in sync here.  Is this making
> things harder overall?

I don't quite understand how taking eBPF quirks for HID devices out of
the kernel tree is different from taking suspend quirks out of the