This is the current decision we took: we don't provide automatic loading of HID-BPF by the kernel directly, but rely on an external tool for it. This tool is currently udev-hid-bpf, so let's make people aware of it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/hid/hid-bpf.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hid-bpf.rst b/Documentation/hid/hid-bpf.rst index bb8457bf15dd..7b151a2aef63 100644 --- a/Documentation/hid/hid-bpf.rst +++ b/Documentation/hid/hid-bpf.rst @@ -129,6 +129,23 @@ When a BPF program needs to emit input events, it needs to talk with the HID protocol, and rely on the HID kernel processing to translate the HID data into input events. +In-tree HID-BPF programs and ``udev-hid-bpf`` +============================================= + +Official device fixes are shipped in the kernel tree as source in the +``drivers/hid/bpf/progs`` directory. This allows to add selftests to them in +``tools/testing/selftests/hid``. + +However, the compilation of these objects is not part of a regular kernel compilation +given that they need an external tool to be loaded. This tool is currently +`udev-hid-bpf <https://libevdev.pages.freedesktop.org/udev-hid-bpf/index.html>`_. + +For convenience, that external repository duplicates the files from here in +``drivers/hid/bpf/progs`` into its own ``src/bpf/stable`` directory. This allows +distributions to not have to pull the entire kernel source tree to ship and package +those HID-BPF fixes. ``udev-hid-bpf`` also has capabilities of handling multiple +objects files depending on the kernel the user is running. + Available types of programs =========================== -- 2.44.0
