Re: [PATCH] [regression] hid-core: Do not discard truncated input reports

Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Robert Marquardt wrote:

> > Truncated reports should not be discarded since it prevents buggy 
> > devices from communicating with userspace.
> Does it really make sense to support such hopelessly broken devices? Do 
> these devices work with Windows without special drivers?

It definitely makes sense - at least due to the fact that such (hopelessly 
broken) devices have already been supported by the linux kernel, so 
accidentaly removing the support definitely is a regression, which is a 
thing we don't want to happen.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina


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