3.16.83-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Fabian Henneke <fabian.henneke@xxxxxxxxx> commit 378b80370aa1fe50f9c48a3ac8af3e416e73b89f upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: s/EPOLL/POLL/] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hidraw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static unsigned int hidraw_poll(struct f poll_wait(file, &list->hidraw->wait, wait); if (list->head != list->tail) - return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM; + return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM | POLLOUT; if (!list->hidraw->exist) return POLLERR | POLLHUP; return 0;