On Wed, 30 May 2018, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > A particular touchpad (SIPODEV SP1064) refuses to supply the HID
> > descriptors. This patch provides the framework for overriding these
> > descriptors based on DMI data. It also includes the descriptors for
> > said touchpad, as well as the DMI data for the 4 laptops known to
> > use this device.
>
> I would love if we did not have to build these quirks into kernel.
> Given that majority of HID devices are compiled as modules, can we try
> using request_firmware("<vid>-<pid>.descr") and try to load descriptor
> overrides from disk before during device initialization? That would
> also allow dropping bunch of trivial HID drivers that contain trivial
> descriptor fixups.
Yeah, this has been on my TODO for years, but I never had time to actually
implement that :/
In case you have anyone asking the "I want to work on kernel, what should
I do?", this might be one of the tasks.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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