On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > > hid-picolcd and hid-wiimote do not allow any of hidinput, hiddev or hidraw > > to claim the device but still want to remain on the bus. Hence, if a > > driver uses the raw_event callback but no other listener claimed the > > device, we still leave it on the bus as the driver handles everything by > > itself. It thus becomes its own listener. > > > > Under some circumstances (eg., hidinput_connect() fails and raw_event set) > > a device may be left on the bus even though it requires external > > listeners. But then if hidinput_connect() fails there are bigger issues > > than a device that is left unhandled. So we can safely use this heuristic > > to avoid adding another flag for special devices like hid-picolcd and > > hid-wiimote. > > > > This also removes the ugly hack from hid-picolcd as this is no longer > > required. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Sorry for the delay. I had two exams this week that got into my way. Anyway, I > > hope this time the patch looks ok. > > > > Thanks to Henrik for reviewing it the previous times. > > Thanks, David, looking good now. > > Acked-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Now queued for 3.6. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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
