Re: [PATCH 0/3] HID: multitouch cleanups and support for fancy devices

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Mar 05 2014 - 08:31:50 EST


On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

> - the first patch is mainly a way for us to reduce the work load regarding hid-mt
> when device makers ask for an inclusion in the kernel.
> Also, I have been notified that a Quanta 3008 was not working, and it occurs
> that this particular device has a special handling in hid-mt. Of course, the
> hardware maker reused the same VID/PID, but changed the protocol.
> So yes, I am in favour of killing all unneeded special cases.
>
> I checked all the devices I was able to test, and this leaves us a bunch of
> devices which, I am sure, could be removed too (all the ones following
> MT_CLS_NSMU should be in this case). So, if anyone else wants to join me in
> this crusade, I'd be glad to receive patches.
>
> - the second and third patch are the v2 of the series I sent back in December
> 2013 ([PATCH 0/3] Change in handling different input device in hid-multitouch).
> Henrik made valuable comments, and I did not had the time to look at it and to
> figure out how to address them. Now I got a different look at this work, and
> I think I addressed the issues (no more function pointers, yeah!)

This is now queued for 3.15 -- so please send any followup patches /
comments on top of for-3.15/multitouch.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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