The hiddev interface provides ioctl() calls which can be used
to obtain phys and raw name of the underlying device.
Add the corresponding support also into hidraw.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
I have people whining about using these headers in userspace, and they have
__KERNEL__ markings which implies they're supposed to be exported. I also
added the required linux/types.h include to hidraw.h since it uses the __u##
kernel types.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Fix bogus copying of data into userspace when HIDIOCGRDESC is issued.
HID-transport layer makes sure that dev->hid->rdesc is not larger than
HID_MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE.
Noticed-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hidraw is an interface that is going to obsolete hiddev one
day.
Many userland applications are using libusb instead of using
kernel-provided hiddev interface. This is caused by various
reasons - the HID parser in kernel doesn't handle all the
HID hardware on the planet properly, some devices might require
its own specific quirks/drivers, etc.
hiddev interface tries to do its best to parse all the received
reports properly, and presents only parsed usages into userspace.
This is however often not enough, and that's the reason why
many userland applications just don't use hiddev at all, and
rather use libusb to read raw USB events and process them on
their own.
Another drawback of hiddev is that it is USB-specific.
hidraw interface provides userspace readers with really raw HID
reports, no matter what the low-level transport layer is (USB/BT),
and gives the userland applications all the freedom to process
the HID reports in a way they wish to.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Jiri Kosina
Mike Frysinger