Re: [PATCH] HID: input: fix input sysfs path for hid devices

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, David Herrmann wrote:

> >> > I think this is valuable because it will give a better understanding of the
> >> > actual mapping hardware/inputs. Like a touchscreen with pen + touch will have
> >> > the same hid parent, and I expect X/Wayland to be able to detect this at some
> >> > point to keep the mapping correctly between the two input devices and the screen.
> >> >
> >> > I also need that for hid-replay, so that I can be sure which input is attached
> >> > to which uhid device, and give up the heuristics I currently use.
> >>
> >> I was just wondering where we have multiple HID devices on a single
> >> parent, but yeah, uhid is a good example. I actually have no
> >> objections to this patch and it looks fine. But I cannot tell whether
> >> anyone relies on this.
> >>
> >> I'd say we should give it a try.
> >
> > Agreed, let's take it for 3.14, and if anyone complains about breakage
> > caused by this (which I don't expect), we'll revert to the previous state.
> 
> You dropped the "Reviewed-by:" part in your commit-msg:
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=bbe3175408cde792fbaa5bd1e41e430ea9e4fb4f
> 
> Not sure, whether you sometimes rebase your tree. If you do, you might
> wanna fix it, otherwise, I don't care. Just wanted to point it out.

Gah, sorry for that. No idea what in my process ate the tag.

I am really trying to make the tree non-rebasing. If you don't mind, I 
wouldn't take this as a reson to rebase.

I can put you twice to some patch later to balance this out :p

Thanks for understanding,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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