Re: [PATCH 0/1] HID: Report Descriptor in Sysfs

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Alan Ott wrote:

> Maybe it is. To be honest I didn't check debugfs. I have two concerns about
> it:
> 1. Is it wise for userspace programs to rely on:

Ah, I didn't realize that you want it to be used by some acutal userspace 
applications. Out of curiosity -- what is the usage pattern you are 
targetting?

The idea behind debugfs-provided userspace descriptor is that driver 
developer is easily able to inspect the descriptor, and write a kernel 
driver that fixes it up in case it is bogus.
There were also efforts to make the report descriptor replaceable in a 
request_firmware() way, but that never converged to state in which it 
could be applied IIRC.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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