Re: [PATCH v2] HID: udraw: Add support for the uDraw tablet for PS3

From: Bastien Nocera
Date: Sat Nov 12 2016 - 12:26:12 EST


On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 14:30 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 14:23 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> >
<snip>
> > Hi Bastien,
> >
> > overall the driver looks ok to me, thanks. Probably the only
> > concern
> > I'dÂ
> > have -- traditionally, we've always been naming drivers by the
> > vendor, asÂ
> > it turned out that over time they get extended by adding support
> > forÂ
> > multiple devices with the same vendor, and usually there is quite
> > someÂ
> > overlap in shared code.
>
> In that particular case, I'd rather it got renamed to "hid-udraw-ps3"
> in this case. The XBox 360 and Wii versions use completely different
> protocols:
> http://brandonw.net/udraw/
>
> The XBox 360 version is more likely to be integrated in with other
> XBox
> pads, and the Wii version along with other Wii Bluetooth remotes.
>
> > Hence I'd propose to call this driver hid-thq (if that's really
> > theÂ
> > vendor's proper name, doesn't seem to be present in latest usb.idsÂ
> > release).
>
> THQ went under in 2012, as a result of making too many of those
> drawing
> tablets:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THQ
>
> I'm fine with it either way. Just let me know which one you prefer.

So, any preference? The sooner you make that choice, the sooner I can
send an updated patch and push this into my distribution's kernel. I
have a machine waiting on the hardware driver for control :)

Cheers