Hi, I looked a bit deeper and found EV_PWR, though it isn't clearly defined, but it is used in some places for purposes like this. Would this be an acceptable method? Thanks, Roderick On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Roderick Colenbrander <roderick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Some of the devices I'm dealing with have methods to disconnect the > device through HID reports. This is mostly useful for wireless devices > to save battery and power them off e.g. when no activity in a wihle or > user wants to turn device off (some devices don't have a power off > button). > > I was trying to figure out if it there is some generic way without > inventing a driver specific method. So far I haven't found anything on > the HID side. The use case is not that common often a user would > unplug a cable, but for some devices there is no real other way. > > The closest thing I found was 'poweroff' as supported by device power > management spec: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/devices.txt. The HID > drivers only support a subset of this so far. > > Does anyone have a good suggestion for handling this? > > Thanks, > Roderick -- Roderick Colenbrander Senior Manager of Software Engineering Gaikai, a Sony Interactive Entertainment Company roderick@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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
