Re: [PATCH v3] Input: Elan HID-I2C device driver

[Benjamin Tissoires]

Hi Tom,

I read Microsoft's things about HID over I2C few days ago. And from
what I understood, the report descriptors and the enumeration of the
devices are stored in the ACPI table and not in the device itself. Can
you confirm this?

I was thinking about making hid-multitouch independent from the usb
stack and was thinking about doing the i2c-hid bridge. However, I did
not start writing a line yet ;-)

Cheers,
Benjamin

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:37, ??? <tom_lin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dmitry
>
>
> On 04/12/2012 12:25 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 06:09:03 PM ??? wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel
>>>
>>> On 04/11/2012 03:12 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:42:46PM +0800, Tom Lin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch adds driver for Elan I2C touchpad. These protocol of HID-I2C
>>>>> was
>>>>> defined by Microsoft. The kernel driver would use the multi-touch
>>>>> protocol
>>>>> format B.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If this device truly supports HID protocol shouldn't we define i2c-hid
>>>> transport, similar to usbhid?
>>>
>>>
>>> I merely follow defined by Microsoft.
>>> It was called "HID OVER I2C" by Microsoft.
>>>
>>> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh825917(v=vs.85).
>>> aspx) But I agree to change from hid i2c to i2chid.
>>> Do you have any better opinions?
>>
>>
>> I am not sure we are talking about same thing... I do not really care
>> whether it is named "hid i2c" or "i2chid". What I meant if the device
>> really speaks HID protocol, except that the transport is not USB or
>> bluetooth but I2C, then instead of writing a custom driver for this
>> particular part we need to add a new HID transport into
>> drivers/hid/i2c-hid that is similar to drivers/hid/usbhid/ and reuse the
>> rest of HID framework along with hid- multitouch.c which handles
>> HID-compliant multitouch devices.
>>
>> I am CCing Jiri (HID maintainer) for additional input.
>
> Sorry! I misunderstood what you mean.
> I fully agree with your suggestion. The I2CHID device will be more and more
> in the future. Need the new i2chid-driver that would cover all hid-compliant
> i2c-devices.
> Thank you
>
> Tom-
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
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