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SubjectRe: Linux USB HID should ignore values outside Logical Minimum/Maximum range
Hi Christoph,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 07:09:43PM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> Hi Denilson,
>
> please see my comment below.
>
> On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 09:42 -0200, Denilson Figueiredo de Sá wrote:
> > Short description:
> >
> > An absolute pointing device using USB HID defines a LOGICAL_MINIMUM and
> > a LOGICAL_MAXIMUM for X, Y axes, and then sends a HID report containing
> > values outside that range.
> >
> > Linux kernel should ignore values outside that range, as they are not
> > meaningful.
>
> To answer with a quote from the comment above input.h:"struct
> input_absinfo":
>
> *
> * Note that input core does not clamp reported values to the
> * [minimum, maximum] limits, such task is left to userspace.
> *
>
> to do so, use this from input.h:
>
> #define EVIOCGABS(abs) _IOR('E', 0x40 + (abs), struct input_absinfo) /* get abs value/limits */
> #define EVIOCSABS(abs) _IOW('E', 0xc0 + (abs), struct input_absinfo) /* set abs value/limits */

While input core does not clam or validate the values reported by the
driver it might make sense to do so in hid-input; I am not sure how
often these limits programmed intorrectly. Jiri i sprobably the best
person to answer this question.

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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