netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Bluetooth: hidp: Add support for hidraw HIDIOCGFEATURE and HIDIOCSFEATURE

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Message-ID: <1278662497.10421.94.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:01:37 -0300
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
Cc:	David S Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Michael Poole <mdpoole@...ilus.org>,
	Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Bluetooth: hidp: Add support for hidraw 
 HIDIOCGFEATURE  and HIDIOCSFEATURE

Hi Alan,

> > I looked at this and I am bit worried that this should not be done in
> > this detail in the HIDP driver. Essentially HIDP is a pure transport
> > driver. It should not handle all these details. Can we make this a bit
> > easier for the transport drivers to support such features?
> 
> I put these changes (most notably the addition of hidp_get_raw_report()) 
> in hidp because that's where the parallel function 
> hidp_output_raw_report() was already located. I figured the input should 
> go with the output. That said, if there's a better place for both of 
> them (input and output) to go, let me know where you think it should be, 
> and I'll get them moved into the proper spot.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean about HIDP being a pure transport driver.

what is usb-hid.ko doing here? I would expect a bunch of code
duplication with minor difference between USB and Bluetooth.

Regards

Marcel


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