Re: [PATCH] hidraw: Return EPOLLOUT from hidraw_poll

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On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Fabian Henneke wrote:

> Always return EPOLLOUT from hidraw_poll when a device is connected.
> This is safe since writes are always possible (but will always block).
> 
> hidraw does not support non-blocking writes and instead always calls
> blocking backend functions on write requests. Hence, so far, a call to
> poll never returned EPOLLOUT, which confuses tools like socat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Henneke <fabian.henneke@xxxxxxxxx>
> In-reply-to: <CA+hv5qkyis03CgYTWeWX9cr0my-d2Oe+aZo+mjmWRXgjrGqyrw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good catch. I believe we need the same for hiddev too, could you please 
look into that as well, given you're fixing things in this area already?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs




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