Re: [PATCH] HID: elecom: rewrite report fixup for EX-G and future mice

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 05:04:45 EST


On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:55:50PM +0000, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
> > +static void mouse_button_fixup(struct hid_device *hdev,
> > + __u8 *rdesc, unsigned int *rsize,
> > + int nbuttons)
>
> I've just remembered what has been bugging me yesterday when I was
> reviewing this patch. I had come to the realisation (and then
> subsequently forgotten) that this function should probably return __u8 *
> and also get assigned to rdesc on the other end. It seems to me that it
> makes most sense to allow for the possibility (although slim) of this
> function eventually being expanded to actually replace the report
> descriptor

Sure, but you can extend the API of mouse_button_fixup() once such need
arises; no need to pass data pointers around without having actual use for
them.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs