Currently the hidraw module can only read and write feature HID reports on
demand, via dedicated ioctls. Input reports are read from the device through
the read() interface, while output reports are written through the write
interface().
This is insufficient; it is desirable in many situations to be able to read and
write input and output reports through the control interface to cover
additional scenarios:
- Reading an input report by its report ID, to get initial state
- Writing an input report, to set initial input state in the device
- Reading an output report by its report ID, to obtain current state
- Writing an output report by its report ID, out of band
This patch adds these missing ioctl requests to read and write the remaining
HID report types. Note that not all HID backends will neccesarily support this
(e.g. while the USB link layer supports setting Input reports, others may not).
Also included are documentation and example updates. The current hidraw
documentation states that feature reports read from the device does *not*
include the report ID, however this is not the case and the returned report
will have its report ID prepended by conforming HID devices, as the report data
sent from the device over the control endpoint must be indentical in format to
those sent over the regular transport.
Signed-off-by: Dean Camera <dean@fourwalledcubicle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Add support for reading out the uniq information from the underlying HID
device. This might be the iSerialNumber in case of USB or the BD_ADDR in
case of Bluetooth.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.
Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.
GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.
Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)
SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Dean Camera