Hi Henrik, Thanks for handling this. I still won't have the time to review this patch set before early may as I'm out of my office. Also sorry for not answering the previous mails, I did not had a reliable internet connection during my holidays. Thanks, Benjamin Le 23 avr. 2012 12:03, "Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > Hi Jiri. > > Here is the third version of the extension to the device-driver > matching mechanism. AFAICT, there are no outstanding issues. I think > we are getting close. :-) > > Building on the report fixup patches, this patchset brings a bit of > transparency to the hid bus, by the addition of device groups. This > allows a more versatile handling of hid drivers in userland, and > simplifies the logic in the kernel. > > In particular, there can be one generic module per device group, and > those modules are handled automatically by udev. Dynamic rebinding of > drivers is fully supported. For instance, to load a special > out-of-tree driver instead of the a generic one, simply unbind the > device and load the new module. One can also keep _all_ generic > drivers as modules, significantly simplifying the process of adding > and testing new features. > > And, of course, auto-loading of new multitouch drivers works, since > that was what triggered this patchset to begin with. :-) > > The second patch contains a simple descriptor scanner that is > new. The last patch unifies the generic drivers into a single, > loadable module. > > Enjoy, > Henrik > > Henrik Rydberg (6): > hid: Add device group to modalias > hid: Scan the device for group info before adding it > hid: Allow bus wildcard matching > hid: Create a generic device group > hid-multitouch: Switch to device groups > hid: Create a common generic driver > > drivers/hid/Kconfig | 12 +++ > drivers/hid/Makefile | 2 + > drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------- > drivers/hid/hid-generic.c | 53 ++++++++++++ > drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 11 --- > drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 3 +- > drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 16 ---- > include/linux/hid.h | 20 +++-- > include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 4 +- > net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 27 +----- > scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 5 +- > 11 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/hid/hid-generic.c > > -- > 1.7.10 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
