Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] HID: i2c-hid: Allow subclasses of i2c-hid for power sequencing

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On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:42:47PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> 
> I also want to say that I like the general idea of Doug's patch.
> Having a separate driver that handles the specific use case of goodix
> is really nice, as it allows to just load this driver without touching
> the core of i2c-hid. I believe this is in line with what Google tries
> to do with their kernel that OEMs can not touch, but only add overlays
> to it. The implementation is not polished (I don't think this new
> driver belongs to the input subsystem), but I like the general idea of
> having the "subclassing". Maybe we can make it prettier with Hans'
> suggestion, given that this mainly means we are transforming
> i2c-hid-core.c into a library.
> 
> As for where this new goodix driver goes, it can stay in
> drivers/hid/i2c-hid IMO.

Yep, I agree, it has nothing to do with input (except the device being
physically a touchscreen ;) ), so driver/hid/i2c-hid makes most sense to
me too.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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