linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] HID: multitouch: Support Asus T304UA media keys

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Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:24:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
cc:     João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, linux@...lessm.com,
        João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...lessm.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] HID: multitouch: Support Asus T304UA media keys

On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

> Sorry for the delay. I was at GUADEC the whole past week and couldn't 
> get much kernel work done. I was thinking a little bit about this series 
> though. Patch 1 is fine, but patch 2 is a little bit more of an issue. 
> Ideally, I'd like to keep hid-multitouch from having too many vendor 
> specific code, but it looks like this is the easier way to handle things 
> here.
> 
> I guess the proper way of solving this situation would be to merge the
> generic windows 8 code from hid-multitouch into hid-input so that other
> drivers can benefit from it, but this is going to be a lot of work and
> -ETIME.

Yes, I actually have this on the list of things I'd eventually like to 
look into one day ... but we shouldn't let this block any further 
development.

I have applied the series now to for-4.14/multitouch (fixing up the 
0xff310076 -> HID_VD_ASUS_CUSTOM_MEDIA_KEYS constant in the condition as a 
followup).

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs