linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: multitouch: do not use pointers towards hid-core

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Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2013 15:14:55 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...il.com>
Cc:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>,
	Stephane Chatty <chatty@...c.fr>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: multitouch: do not use pointers towards hid-core

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

> The previous implementation registered a pointer towards hid-core
> to the value of contact count. This is not safe and may be difficult
> to debug if hid-core ever changes its implementation.
> The use of regular indexes is a better choice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...il.com>

Applied this one on top of the previous hid-multitouch patchset. Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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