linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] Don't Send Feature Reports on Interrupt Endpoint

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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:58:29 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>
To:	Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
CC:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] Don't Send Feature Reports on Interrupt Endpoint

Hello.

Alan Ott wrote:

> Feature reports should only be sent on the control endpoint.

> The USB HID standard is unclear and confusing on this issue. It seems to
> suggest that Feature reports can be sent on a HID device's Interrupt OUT
> endpoint. This cannot be the case because the report type is not
> encoded in transfers sent out the Interrput OUT endpoint. If Feature 
> reports were sent on the Interrupt OUT endpint, they would be 
> indistinguishable from Output reports in the case where Report IDs were 
> not used.

> Further, Windows and Mac OS X do not send Feature reports out the 
> interrupt OUT Endpoint. They will only go out the Control Endpoint.

> In addition, many devices simply do not hande Feature reports sent out 
> the Interrupt OUT endpoint.

> Reported-by: simon@...gewell.org
> Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
> index b729c02..b0ccc42 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
> @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static int usbhid_output_raw_report(struct 
> hid_device *hid, __u8 *buf, size_t co
>      struct usb_host_interface *interface = intf->cur_altsetting;
>      int ret;

    It's high time to add an empty line here...

>  -    if (usbhid->urbout) {

    The patch is damaged -- something inserted spaces at the start of lines...

WBR, Sergei
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