Hi Benjamin, On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:39:12AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:19 AM Life is hard, and then you die > <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Benjamin, > > > > Thank you for looking at this. > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:18:23PM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:13 AM Ronald Tschalär <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > The iBridge device provides access to several devices, including: > > > > - the Touch Bar > > > > - the iSight webcam > > > > - the light sensor > > > > - the fingerprint sensor > > > > > > > > This driver provides the core support for managing the iBridge device > > > > and the access to the underlying devices. In particular, since the > > > > functionality for the touch bar and light sensor is exposed via USB HID > > > > interfaces, and the same HID device is used for multiple functions, this > > > > driver provides a multiplexing layer that allows multiple HID drivers to > > > > be registered for a given HID device. This allows the touch bar and ALS > > > > driver to be separated out into their own modules. > > > > > > Sorry for coming late to the party, but IMO this series is far too > > > complex for what you need. > > > > > > As I read this and the first comment of drivers/mfd/apple-ibridge.c, > > > you need to have a HID driver that multiplex 2 other sub drivers > > > through one USB communication. > > > For that, you are using MFD, platform driver and you own sauce instead > > > of creating a bus. > > > > Basically correct. To be a bit more precise, there are currently two > > hid-devices and two drivers (touchbar and als) involved, with > > connections as follows (pardon the ugly ascii art): > > > > hdev1 --- tb-drv > > / > > / > > / > > hdev2 --- als-drv > > > > i.e. the touchbar driver talks to both hdev's, and hdev2's events > > (reports) are processed by both drivers (though each handles different > > reports). > > > > > So, how about we reuse entirely the HID subsystem which already > > > provides the capability you need (assuming I am correct above). > > > hid-logitech-dj already does the same kind of stuff and you could: > > > - create drivers/hid/hid-ibridge.c that handles USB_ID_PRODUCT_IBRIDGE > > > - hid-ibridge will then register itself to the hid subsystem with a > > > call to hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_HIDRAW) and > > > hid_device_io_start(hdev) to enable the events (so you don't create > > > useless input nodes for it) > > > - then you add your 2 new devices by calling hid_allocate_device() and > > > then hid_add_device(). You can even create a new HID group > > > APPLE_IBRIDGE and allocate 2 new PIDs for them to distinguish them > > > from the actual USB device. > > > - then you have 2 brand new HID devices you can create their driver as > > > a regular ones. > > > > > > hid-ibridge.c would just need to behave like any other hid transport > > > driver (see logi_dj_ll_driver in drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c) and > > > you can get rid of at least the MFD and the platform part of your > > > drivers. > > > > > > Does it makes sense or am I missing something obvious in the middle? > > > > Yes, I think I understand, and I think this can work. Basically, > > instead of demux'ing at the hid-driver level as I am doing now (i.e. > > the iBridge hid-driver forwarding calls to the sub-hid-drivers), we > > demux at the hid-device level (events forwarded from iBridge hdev to > > all "virtual" sub-hdev's, and requests from sub-hdev's forwarded to > > the original hdev via an iBridge ll_driver attached to the > > sub-hdev's). > > > > So I would need to create 3 new "virtual" hid-devices (instances) as > > follows: > > > > hdev1 --- vhdev1 --- tb-drv > > / > > -- vhdev2 -- > > / > > hdev2 --- vhdev3 --- als-drv > > > > (vhdev1 is probably not strictly necessary, but makes things more > > consistent). > > Oh, ok. > > How about the following: > > hdev1 and hdev2 are merged together in hid-apple-ibridge.c, and then > this driver creates 2 virtual hid drivers that are consistent > > like > > hdev1---ibridge-drv---vhdev1---tb-drv > hdev2--/ \--vhdev2---als-drv I don't think this will work. The problem is when the sub-drivers need to send a report or usb-command: how to they specify which hdev the report/command is destined for? While we could store the original hdev in each report (the hid_report's device field), that only works for hid_hw_request(), but not for things like hid_hw_raw_request() or hid_hw_output_report(). Now, currently I don't use the latter two; but I do need to send raw usb control messages in the touchbar driver (some commands are not proper hid reports), so it definitely breaks down there. Or am I missing something? Cheers, Ronald
