Re: hid-related 5.2-rc1 boot hang

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:36 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 04-06-19 10:05, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >>>> We should likely just remove c52f from the list of supported devices.
> >>>> C52f receivers seem to have a different firmware as they are meant to
> >>>> work with different devices than C534. So I guess it is safer to not
> >>>> handle those right now and get the code in when it is ready.
> >>>
> >>> Ack. Can you prepare a patch to drop the c52f id?
> >>
> >> Yes. I have an other revert never submitted that I need to push, so I
> >> guess I can do a revert session today.
> >>
> >> I think I'll also buy one device with hopefully the C52F receiver as
> >> the report descriptors attached in
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203619 seems different to
> >> what I would have expected.
> >
> > They are actually what I expected :)
> >
> > The first USB interface is a mouse boot class device, since this is a mouse
> > only receiver. This means that the mouse report is unnumbered and we need to
> > extend the unnumbered mouse-report handling to handle this case. Also the
> > device is using the same highres mouse-reports as the gaming receiver is.
> >
> > I'm actually preparing a patch right now which should fix this. Still might
> > be better to do the revert for 5.2 and get proper support for the c52f
> > receiver into 5.3.
>
> I've attached a patch to the bug:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203619

Cool, thanks.

>
> Which should fix this. It is quite simple and safe, so if we get testing
> feedback relatively soon, we could go with the fix instead of dropping the
> product-id, your call.

I should receive the M280 tomorrow, hopefully with the C52F. If the
receiver is correct and the tests are successful, I'd prefer to take
this one over the revert :)

Cheers,
Benjamin