linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: LEDs

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:48:08 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.com>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: LEDs - skip unnamed LEDs

On Fri 2015-07-24 10:22:04, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 12:02 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >Devices may declare more LEDs than what is known to input-leds
> >(HID does this for some devices). Instead of showing ugly warnings
> >on connect and, even worse, oopsing on disconnect, let's simply
> >ignore LEDs that are not known to us.
> >
> >Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> 
> No more warnings and oopses, so:
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> 
> FTR, it now looks like this:
> gusiac:/sys/bus/hid/devices/0003:046D:C50E.0004/input/input15 # ls -1 | grep
> input15
> input15::charging
> input15::mail
> input15::misc
> 
> All three have max_brightness of 1, but echo 1 > brightness does nothing.
> Clearly the leds are indeed autonomous only and the mouse shouldn't even
> report them.

Should the mouse get blacklist entry with fixed HID descriptor?
									Pavel
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