Re: [PATCH v2] HID: add driver for U2F Zero built-in LED and RNG

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On 18/03/2019 15:44, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> 
>> U2F Zero supports custom commands for blinking the LED and getting data
>> from the internal hardware RNG. Expose the blinking function as a LED
>> device, and the internal hardware RNG as an HWRNG so that it can be used
>> to feed the enthropy pool.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> This version of the patch sets the quality to 1.
>>
>> ---
>>  drivers/hid/Kconfig       |  15 ++
>>  drivers/hid/Makefile      |   1 +
>>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h     |   1 +
>>  drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c | 371 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 388 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hid/Kconfig b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>> index 41e9935fc584..4f1b8939561d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>> @@ -989,6 +989,21 @@ config HID_UDRAW_PS3
>>  	  Say Y here if you want to use the THQ uDraw gaming tablet for
>>  	  the PS3.
>>  
>> +config HID_U2FZERO
>> +	tristate "U2F Zero LED and RNG support"
>> +	depends on HID
>> +	depends on LEDS_CLASS
>> +	help
>> +	  Support for the LED of the U2F Zero device.
>> +
>> +	  U2F Zero supports custom commands for blinking the LED
>> +	  and getting data from the internal hardware RNG.
>> +	  The internal hardware can be used to feed the enthropy pool.
>> +
>> +	  U2F Zero only supports blinking its LED, so this driver doesn't
>> +	  allow setting the brightness to anything but 1, which will
>> +	  trigger a single blink and immediately reset to back 0.
>> +
> 
> This driver isn't really a generic (transport-agnostic) one (which also 
> means it's missing USB dependency in Kconfig btw).

Thanks, I forgot that one.

> Is there a reason why it can't be abstracted that way so that it'd fit our 
> principal model in HID subsystem?

I tried and I failed. The HID subsystem doesn’t provide the
functionality necessary to implement the protocol, or maybe I’m missing
something, but I haven’t found a way.

> Also, I've looked at it really briefly, but can't it be easily implemented 
> in userspace?

Well, it could, but I would like this to work out of the box without a
need of extra userspace code (the RNG mainly, the LED support was just
an additional "why not" thing).

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej



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