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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] hid: Add device group to modalias
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:00:53AM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> HID devices are only partially presented to userland. Hotplugged
> devices emit events containing a modalias based on the basic bus,
> vendor and product entities. However, in practise a hid device can
> depend on details such as a single usb interface or a particular item
> in a report descriptor.
>
> This patch adds a device group to the hid device id, and broadcasts it
> using uevent and the device modalias. The module alias generation is
> modified to match. As a consequence, a device with a non-zero group
> will be processed by the corresponding group driver instead of by the
> generic hid driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
> ---

Addition for v2: store_new_id() needs to be modified as well, in order
for the added devices to match the right device group. Something like
the below should suffice.

Henrik

---

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 4845567..3c9bf3e 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -580,6 +576,17 @@ const struct hid_device_id *hid_match_id(struct hid_device *hdev,
return NULL;
}

+static int hid_get_driver_group(const struct hid_driver *hdrv)
+{
+ const struct hid_device_id *id;
+ int group = 0;
+
+ for (id = hdrv->id_table; id->bus; id++)
+ group = id->group;
+
+ return group;
+}
+
static const struct hid_device_id hid_hiddev_list[] = {
{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MGE, USB_DEVICE_ID_MGE_UPS) },
{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MGE, USB_DEVICE_ID_MGE_UPS1) },
@@ -977,6 +984,7 @@ static ssize_t store_new_id(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
return -ENOMEM;

dynid->id.bus = bus;
+ dynid->id.group = hid_get_driver_group(hdrv);
dynid->id.vendor = vendor;
dynid->id.product = product;
dynid->id.driver_data = driver_data;

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