Re: [PATCH] Logitech G13 driver (fixed cc list --- ignore others)

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote:

> >> > This patch is against the torvalds/linux-2.6.git tree.
> >>
> >> Should this use auxdisplay framework and be located there?
> >
> > Well, the device is still primarily HID device in its nature, so either
> > keeping the whole driver in drivers/hid, or separating it into two
> > drivers, one for the HID part and second for the framebuffer part should
> > be acceptable.
> 
> The framebuffer part uses the same interrupt endpoint for both HID and
> display. IIRC there were issues with two drivers using the same interrupt
> endpoint.

I have no objection to keeping this as a single driver in drivers/hid, 
provided that the framebuffer part gets reviewed by someone more familiar 
with the framebuffer code than I am.

> > I will proceed with reviewing the driver soon, sorry for slightly higher
> > latencies these days.
> 
> No problem... as you can see my latency responding is rather high.

Also please see the other thread about the build failures I am getting 
with this drivers (and it's not fixed solely by making the driver 
dependent on FB_DEFERRED_IO (namely it doesn't like to be built in as 
module, because of the symbol name clashes with hid-lg).

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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