Re: [PATCH RESEND v8 2/4] input: elants: support old touch report format

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 06:04:01PM +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 07:39:33PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> > 11.12.2020 19:09, Michał Mirosław пишет:
> > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:29:40PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > >> Hi Michał,
> > >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 07:53:56AM +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > >>> @@ -998,17 +1011,18 @@ static irqreturn_t elants_i2c_irq(int irq, void *_dev)
> > >>>  			}
> > >>>  
> > >>>  			report_len = ts->buf[FW_HDR_LENGTH] / report_count;
> > >>> -			if (report_len != PACKET_SIZE) {
> > >>> +			if (report_len != PACKET_SIZE &&
> > >>> +			    report_len != PACKET_SIZE_OLD) {
> > >>>  				dev_err(&client->dev,
> > >>> -					"mismatching report length: %*ph\n",
> > >>> +					"unsupported report length: %*ph\n",
> > >>>  					HEADER_SIZE, ts->buf);
> > >> Do I understand this correctly that the old packets are only observed on
> > >> EKTF3624? If so can we expand the check so that we only accept packets
> > >> with "old" size when we know we are dealing with this device?
> > > 
> > > We only have EKTF3624 and can't be sure there are no other chips needing this.
> > 
> > In practice this older packet format should be seen only on 3624, but
> > nevertheless we could make it more explicit by adding the extra chip_id
> > checks.
> > 
> > It won't be difficult to change it in the future if will be needed.
> > 
> > I think the main point that Dmitry Torokhov conveys here is that we
> > should minimize the possible impact on the current EKT3500 code since we
> > don't have definitive answers regarding the firmware differences among
> > the hardware variants.
> 
> The only possible impact here is that older firmware instead of breaking
> would suddenly work. Maybe we can accept such a risk?

These are not controllers we'll randomly find in devices: Windows boxes
use I2C HID, Chrome devices use "new" firmware, so that leaves random
ARM where someone needs to consciously add proper compatible before the
driver will engage with the controller.

I would prefer we were conservative and not accept potentially invalid
data.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry