On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Dan Williams wrote: > 2/ Device passthrough, kernel passing opaque payloads, is already taken > for granted in many subsystems. USB and HID have "raw" interfaces Just as a completely random datapoint here: after I implemented hidraw inteface long time ago, I was a little bit hesitant about really merging it, because there was a general fear that this would shatter the HID driver ecosystem, making it difficult for people to find proper drivers for their devices, etc. Turns out that that didn't happen. Drivers for generic devices are still implemented properly in the kernel, and hidraw is mostly used for rather specific, one-off solutions, where the vendor's business plan is "ship this one appliance and forget forever", which doesn't really cause any harm to the whole ecosystem. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
