linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] HID: autoload hid-multitouch as needed

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:57:49 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Stéphane Chatty <chatty@...c.fr>
Cc:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>,
	"benjamin.tissoires" <benjamin.tissoires@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] HID: autoload hid-multitouch as needed

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Stéphane Chatty wrote:

> > What if we were to change the definition of a HID device on the
> > modalias level?
> > 
> > In practise, a HID device can be either an usb device, a hid device,
> 
> Just to be sure: do you mean "bluetooth device"? or is there such a 
> thing as a hid device per se? I'm asking because I've always been 
> surprised at seeing usbhid/ in hid/, which kind of breaks the potential 
> symmetry between USB and Bluetooth wrt hid.

Please don't get confused by the directory layout ... this has mostly 
non-technical reasons -- Marcel wanted to keep bluetooth/hidp under his 
wings, and I didn't have reasons to object strongly.

I am adding Marcel and Gustavo to CC just in case they have changed their 
mind, but it's definitely a side-topic in this discussion.
Marcel, Gustavo -- if you are interested in the whole discussion regarding 
potential extension of HID core infrastructure to better suit multitouch, 
please see the whole thread at http://marc.info/?t=133105322800006&r=1&w=4

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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