Re: swallowed wakeup in hiddev

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Organization Novell
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 15:12 schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it is broken. Hiddev allows multiple openings of the same device. 
> > You cannot just mix IO requests of different readers. You are allowing a 
> > second process to delay IO completion of the first process.
> 
> It is questionable whether this is worth fixing, as hiddev has a very few 
> real-world users (acupsd, nut, anything else?) - much more userland

probably not a high priority - I'll have a go at it once autosuspend
works

> applications willing to fiddle with HID use libhid instead, for various 
> reasons.
> 
> I have recently started writing a code of hidraw, which should provide a 
> real raw access to HID data (without parsing, as hiddev does), as this 
> seems to be what userland applications want (and that's why they are not 
> using hiddev - they want really raw HID events, not the parsed ones that 
> hiddev gives them). But thanks for pinpointing this, I will solve it 
> differently in hidraw.

Good.

	Regards
		Oliver

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