Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] HID: quirks: Refactor ELAN 400 and 401 handling

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 7:45 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > > +static const char *hid_elan_i2c_ignore[] = {
> >
> > If this is a copy of elan whitelist, then, if we do not want to bother
> > with sharing it in object form (as a elan-i2c-ids module), can we at
> > least move it into include/linux/input/elan-i2c-ids.h and consume from
> > hid-quirks.c?
>
> Let's just not duplicate it in both objects. Why not properly export it
> from hid_quirks?

Strictly speaking Elan does not depend on HID; exporting it from
quirks would mean adding this dependency. This also mean that you
can't make Elan built-in while keeping HID as a module (I think this
at least used to be config on some Chromebooks).

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry