Re: [PATCH 3/4] HID: multitouch: drop reports containing invalid values
From: Joey Pabalinas
Date: Thu Aug 09 2018 - 23:27:56 EST
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:13:54AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> You can't really use plain values like that. There is a tiny chance
> these values are valid on an other device.
> IIRC, MS spec says that we should ignore out of band values if they
> are tagged as such. Such input are tagged with NULL values
> (http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/HID1_11.pdf page 31) and MS
> spec mentioned this.
>
> All in all, if you have this bit set, you need to compare the value
> with the logical_max/min for each field.
>
> I never encountered a device that required this, so you are probably
> the lucky one :)
Ah, you are completely right. After giving that pdf a read over
I will definitely be dropping this patch from the v2.
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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas
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