Re: [PATCH 0/5] HID logitech DJ fixes and preps for enabling extended features

[Andrew de los Reyes]

Just curious, what is the status of these patches?

Benjamin, should I rebase Chrome OS's Logitech patches on top of these
and look at sending them upstream as well?

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Benjamin Tissoires
<benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/01/14 16:08, Andrew de los Reyes wrote:
>> In general, I'm positive on the change to fix the USB3 issue (yay!),
>> and for the others I'm happy it's going upstream. It seem to open up
>> the possibility of user-space drivers, which is great, even though we
>> don't need this on our team.
>>
>> One thing I want to double-check: on some devices (T651, at least),
>> the raw data comes in not via HID++, but tacked onto the end of the
>> normal mouse reports. Will a driver for this device be able to get all
>> packets, not just HID++ ones? Sorry if this was clear and I missed it.
>
> Yeah, that is partly why I can not send the rest of the series right
> now. Nestor already warned me about those funny devices, so I need to
> double check how to implement HID++.
>
> On a technical point of view, a driver connected through the unifying
> receiver currently only get the regular input reports, and this series
> adds the HID++ reports to these ones. So yes, a device will receive all
> reports dedicated to it.
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
>>
>> -andrew
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Benjamin Tissoires
>> <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Jiri,
>>>
>>> Well, this work is _not_ for 3.14 (except maybe patch 1), especially since it is
>>> missing the biggest part where we enable the capabilities of Logitech devices.
>>>
>>> Long story short:
>>> This work is based on the work I did back in Summer 2011. I worked at Logitech
>>> for a few weeks to show up a demo of a driver for the Logitech Wireless Touchpad.
>>> At that time, a first draft has been done, but due to a lack of resources, noone
>>> upstreamed it.
>>> Since then, the code marinated a little at Logitech and in the ChromeOS kernel
>>> tree, but nobody tried to push it upstream. So here I am, trying to push this stuff
>>> upstream.
>>>
>>> I can not send the full series right now because I am lacking most of the
>>> testing hardware (I mean I only have the oldest Wireless Touchpad).
>>> Hopefully, I should receive some other soon, and I'll be able to send the second
>>> part then.
>>>
>>> Now, let me roughly explain the patches:
>>> - patch 1 can be applied right now I think, but it's entirely up to you Jiri.
>>>   This patch should fix the missing notifications with some USB 3.0 boards.
>>> - patches 2 to 5 allows to forward in both direction the proprietary protocol
>>>   used by Logitech (HID++ [1]) between the driver and the hardware.
>>> - later patches will introduce a transport layer for HID++ and also a driver
>>>   to support full multitouch on various Logitech touchpads.
>>>
>>> Nestor, Andrew, feel free to add your "Signed-off-by" whereever you want, I lost
>>> a little bit the track of who added what.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Benjamin
>>>
>>> [1] HID++: Documentation is provided at
>>> https://drive.google.com/a/logitech.com/?tab=mo#folders/0BxbRzx7vEV7eWmgwazJ3NUFfQ28
>>>
>>> Benjamin Tisssoires (5):
>>>   HID: logitech-dj: Fix USB 3.0 issue
>>>   HID: core: do not scan reports if the group is already set
>>>   HID: logitech-dj: rely on hid groups to separate receivers from dj
>>>     devices
>>>   HID: logitech-dj: forward incoming HID++ reports to the correct dj
>>>     device
>>>   HID: logitech-dj: add .request callback
>>>
>>>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c        |   3 +-
>>>  drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>>  drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.h |  16 ++---
>>>  include/linux/hid.h           |   1 +
>>>  4 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> --
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