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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:39:57 -0600
From: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>
To: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <jeffrey.l.hugo@...il.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, xnox@...ntu.com,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
"open list:HID CORE LAYER" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
MSM <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] HID: quirks: Refactor ELAN 400 and 401 handling
On 6/13/2019 2:55 AM, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:20 AM Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/12/2019 3:46 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:27:21PM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
>>>> There needs to be coordination between hid-quirks and the elan_i2c driver
>>>> about which devices are handled by what drivers. Currently, both use
>>>> whitelists, which results in valid devices being unhandled by default,
>>>> when they should not be rejected by hid-quirks. This is quickly becoming
>>>> an issue.
>>>>
>>>> Since elan_i2c has a maintained whitelist of what devices it will handle,
>>>> which is now in a header file that hid-quirks can access, use that to
>>>> implement a blacklist in hid-quirks so that only the devices that need to
>>>> be handled by elan_i2c get rejected by hid-quirks, and everything else is
>>>> handled by default.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jeffrey.l.hugo@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>>>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
>>>> index e5ca6fe2ca57..bd81bb090222 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
>>>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>>>> #include <linux/export.h>
>>>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>>>> #include <linux/mutex.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/input/elan-i2c-ids.h>
>>>>
>>>> #include "hid-ids.h"
>>>>
>>>> @@ -914,6 +915,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_mouse_ignore_list[] = {
>>>>
>>>> bool hid_ignore(struct hid_device *hdev)
>>>> {
>>>> + int i;
>>>> +
>>>> if (hdev->quirks & HID_QUIRK_NO_IGNORE)
>>>> return false;
>>>> if (hdev->quirks & HID_QUIRK_IGNORE)
>>>> @@ -978,18 +981,20 @@ bool hid_ignore(struct hid_device *hdev)
>>>> break;
>>>> case USB_VENDOR_ID_ELAN:
>>>> /*
>>>> - * Many Elan devices have a product id of 0x0401 and are handled
>>>> - * by the elan_i2c input driver. But the ACPI HID ELAN0800 dev
>>>> - * is not (and cannot be) handled by that driver ->
>>>> - * Ignore all 0x0401 devs except for the ELAN0800 dev.
>>>> + * Blacklist of everything that gets handled by the elan_i2c
>>>> + * input driver. This avoids disabling valid touchpads and
>>>> + * other ELAN devices.
>>>> */
>>>> - if (hdev->product == 0x0401 &&
>>>> - strncmp(hdev->name, "ELAN0800", 8) != 0)
>>>> - return true;
>>>> - /* Same with product id 0x0400 */
>>>> - if (hdev->product == 0x0400 &&
>>>> - strncmp(hdev->name, "QTEC0001", 8) != 0)
>>>> - return true;
>>>> + if ((hdev->product == 0x0401 || hdev->product == 0x0400)) {
>>>> + for (i = 0; strlen(elan_acpi_id[i].id); ++i)
>>>> + if (!strncmp(hdev->name, elan_acpi_id[i].id,
>>>> + strlen(elan_acpi_id[i].id)))
>>>> + return true;
>>>> + for (i = 0; strlen(elan_of_match[i].name); ++i)
>>>> + if (!strncmp(hdev->name, elan_of_match[i].name,
>>>> + strlen(elan_of_match[i].name)))
>>>> + return true;
>>>
>>> Do we really need to blacklist the OF case here? I thought that in ACPI
>>> case we have clashes as HID gets matched by elan_i2c and CID is matched
>>> by i2c-hid, but I do not believe we'll run into the same situation on OF
>>> systems.
>>
>> I think its the safer approach.
>>
>> On an OF system, such as patch 3 in the series, the "hid-over-i2c" will
>> end up running through this (kind of the whole reason why this series
>> exists). The vendor and product ids will still match, so we'll end up
>> going through the lists to see if the hdev->name (the compatible string)
>> will match the blacklist. "hid-over-i2c" won't match the blacklist, but
>> if there is a more specific compatible, it might.
>>
>> In that case, not matching OF would work, however how it could break
>> today is if both "hid-over-i2c" and "elan,ekth3000" were listed for the
>> same device, and elan_i2c was not compiled. In that case, if we skip
>> the OF part of the black list, hid-quirks will not reject the device,
>> and you'll probably have some odd behavior instead of the obvious "the
>> device doesn't work because the correct driver isn't present" behavior.
>>
>> While that scenario might be far fetched since having both
>> "hid-over-i2c" and "elan,ekth3000" probably violates the OF bindings,
>> its still safer to include the OF case in the blacklist against future
>> scenarios.
>>
>>
>
> Dmitry, if you are happy with Jeffrey's answer, feel free to take this
> through your tree and add:
> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
>
> I don't expect any major conflicts given on where the code is located.
Ping?
Dmitry, are you happy with things? I would really like to see this
queued for 5.3, and it seems like the window to do so is rapidly closing.
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