Re: [PATCH] HID: rmi: do not handle touchscreens through hid-rmi

From: Benjamin Tissoires
Date: Tue May 20 2014 - 10:59:40 EST


On May 20 2014 or thereabouts, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>
> > Currently, hid-rmi drives every Synaptics product, but the touchscreens
> > on the Windows tablets should be handled through hid-multitouch.
> >
> > Instead of providing a long list of PIDs, rely on the scan_report
> > capability to detect which should go to hid-multitouch, and which
> > should not go to hid-rmi.
> >
> > We introduce a generic HID_GROUP_HAVE_SPECIAL_DRIVER which can be reused
> > amoung other drivers if they want to have a catch rule but still
> > have multitouch devices handled through hid-multitouch.
> >
> > related bug:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74241
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089583
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> sorry for not responding sooner.

It's not a big deal. Actually, the Canonical folks reminded me the state
of this patch that I completely forgot too :)

>
> Yes, I have to say I find HID_GROUP_HAVE_SPECIAL_DRIVER very disgusting.
> Especially its (non-)relation to hid_have_special_driver[] is very
> confusing.
>
> If you could update this to be RMI-specific (i.e. create a special
> HID_GROUP for RMI devices), I'll merge it right away.

Ok, I'll add this to the pile of things to do today.

Cheers,
Benjamin
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