On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > It is clear that the goal is to make commit > 4ea5454203d991ec85264f64f89ca8855fce69b0 less restrictive. > The problem is that this commit stops any communication with the > device, even configuration communication. > > Logitech devices use their own protocol on top of the HID standard > protocol. For touch devices, this proprietary protocol requires to ask > the device for axis ranges, etc... > > So here, the idea is not to open the can of worm for every hid devices > through hw_start() / hw_stop() calls, I think the idea of Andrew is > just to allow hid-logitech-dj to get rid of this restriction in some > particular circumstances. > Consider this as a controlled backdoor of the can of worms :) I have been thinking for this for a while, and I wasn't able to come up with anything I'd personally consider substantially better aproach than splitting the lock. So I don't have strong objections at the very moment. This will also allow us to get rid of what commit 596264082f introduced in unifying driver, right? (adding Nestor to CC). -- 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
