hidraw is an interface that is going to obsolete hiddev one
day.
Many userland applications are using libusb instead of using
kernel-provided hiddev interface. This is caused by various
reasons - the HID parser in kernel doesn't handle all the
HID hardware on the planet properly, some devices might require
its own specific quirks/drivers, etc.
hiddev interface tries to do its best to parse all the received
reports properly, and presents only parsed usages into userspace.
This is however often not enough, and that's the reason why
many userland applications just don't use hiddev at all, and
rather use libusb to read raw USB events and process them on
their own.
Another drawback of hiddev is that it is USB-specific.
hidraw interface provides userspace readers with really raw HID
reports, no matter what the low-level transport layer is (USB/BT),
and gives the userland applications all the freedom to process
the HID reports in a way they wish to.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu",
so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once
instead of having to disable each option separately.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
There have been many reports recently about broken HID devices, the
diagnosis of which required users to recompile their kernels in order
to be able to provide debugging output needed for coding a quirk for
a particular device.
This patch makes CONFIG_HID_DEBUG default y if !EMBEDDED and makes it
possible to control debugging output produced by HID code by supplying
'debug=1' module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Separate usbhid code into dedicated drivers/hid/usbhid directory as
discussed previously with Greg, so that it eases maintaineance process.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
hid-debug.h contains a lot of code, and should not therefore
be a header.
This patch moves the code to generic hid layer as .c source, and
introduces CONFIG_HID_DEBUG to conditionally compile it, instead
of playing with #define DEBUG and including hid-debug.h.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The help text for CONFIG_HID might imply for someone that
it's necessary to enable it for any keyboard or mouse
attached to the system. This is obviously not correct, so
fix it to avoid confusing the users.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
HID it defaults to 'y'. When you have input deselected, this
causes the kernel to fail to link.
Fix it by making it depend on INPUT.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This modifies Makefiles and Kconfigs to properly reflect the creation of
generic HID layer.
It also removes the dependency of BROKEN, which was introduced by the
first patch in series (see the comment). Also updates credits.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
