linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: autodetect USB HID sensor hubs.

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1212121042100.19767@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:42:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>,
	srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: autodetect USB HID sensor hubs.

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Alexander Holler wrote:

> It should not be necessary to add IDs for HID sensor hubs to lists
> in hid-core.c and hid-sensor-hub.c. So instead of a whitelist,
> autodetect such USB HID sensor hubs, based on a collection of type
> physical inside a useage page of type sensor. If some sensor hubs
> stil must be usable as raw devices, a blacklist might be created.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>

I like this change and would like to merge it, but I'd appreciate Ack from 
Srinivas first.

Srinivas?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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