On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> The driver has its own HID descriptor parsing code, that had and still
> has several issues discovered by syzbot and other tools. Ideally we
> should move the driver over to the HID subsystem, so that it uses proven
> parsing code. However the devices in question are EOL, and GTCO is not
> willing to extend resources for that, so let's simply remove the driver.
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
>
> Note that our HID support has greatly improved over the last 10 years,
> we may also consider reverting 6f8d9e26e7de ("hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO
> CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist") and see
> if GTCO devices actually work with normal HID drivers.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Perhaps you can do that in a series
together, and stage that for 5.12?
Thanks,
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
