On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:49:09AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> hid-picolcd and hid-wiimote do not allow any of hidinput, hiddev or hidraw
> to claim the device but still want to remain on the bus. Hence, if a
> driver uses the raw_event callback but no other listener claimed the
> device, we still leave it on the bus as the driver handles everything by
> itself. It thus becomes its own listener.
>
> Under some circumstances (eg., hidinput_connect() fails and raw_event set)
> a device may be left on the bus even though it requires external
> listeners. But then if hidinput_connect() fails there are bigger issues
> than a device that is left unhandled. So we can safely use this heuristic
> to avoid adding another flag for special devices like hid-picolcd and
> hid-wiimote.
>
> This also removes the ugly hack from hid-picolcd as this is no longer
> required.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <[email protected]>
> ---
> Sorry for the delay. I had two exams this week that got into my way. Anyway, I
> hope this time the patch looks ok.
>
> Thanks to Henrik for reviewing it the previous times.
Thanks, David, looking good now.
Acked-by: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
Henrik
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