Re: [PATCH] Driver for Primax keyboards violating USB HID spec

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Oct 13 2011 - 19:35:55 EST


On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Primax keyboards with the issue this driver addresses report modifier
> keys as in band key events instead of as out of band modifier bits,
> resulting in the modifier keys generating key up events immediately
> before the keys they are intended to modify. This driver rewrites
> the raw report data from such keyboards into USB HID 1.11 compliant
> report data. It only matches the USB vendor and product IDs for the
> keyboard it has been tested on. Since there are several keyboards,
> notably a number of laptops and folding USB keyboards known to have
> similar unresolved problem reports, the list is expected to grow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Terry Lambert <tlambert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Terry,

thanks for the patch.

[ ... snip ... ]
> +static int px_input_mapping(struct hid_device *hid, struct hid_input *hi,
> + struct hid_field *field, struct hid_usage *usage,
> + unsigned long **bit, int *max)
> +{
> + struct px_device *px = hid_get_drvdata(hid);
> +
> + px->input_primax = hi->input;
> +
> + /* Remap keys, if necesssary, here */
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

I fail to see the point of this routine ... ?

Otherwise, the patch seems fine.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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