netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Adding HID Feature Report Support to hidraw

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Message-Id: <20110201124730.ac1faf74.ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:47:30 +0100
From:	Antonio Ospite <ospite@...denti.unina.it>
To:	Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Michael Poole <mdpoole@...ilus.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Adding HID Feature Report Support to hidraw

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:04:36 -0500
Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us> wrote:

> This patch adds Feature Report support for USB and Bluetooth HID devices
> through hidraw.
> 
> The first two patches prepare the bluetooth side for the change.
> 	a. Make sure the hidp_session() thread is started before
> 	   device's probe() functions are called.
> 	b. Wait for ACK/NAK on sent reports, and return proper
> 	   error codes.
> The third patch is the hidraw core and USB changes.

In particular, this third patch is a prerequisite for the bluez
sixaxis-cable plugin, originally written by Bastien Nocera (added to
CC) which I plan to submit when these changes are merged in mainline
linux.

[...]

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Antonio Ospite
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