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2012-06-18HID: uhid: implement feature requestsDavid Herrmann1-0/+17
HID standard allows sending a feature request to the device which is answered by an HID report. uhid implements this by sending a UHID_FEATURE event to user-space which then must answer with UHID_FEATURE_ANSWER. If it doesn't do this in a timely manner, the request is discarded silently. We serialize the feature requests, that is, there is always only a single active feature-request sent to user-space, other requests have to wait. HIDP and USB-HID do it the same way. Because we discard feature-requests silently, we must make sure to match a response to the corresponding request. We use sequence-IDs for this so user-space must copy the ID from the request into the answer. Feature-answers are ignored if they do not contain the same ID as the currently pending feature request. Internally, we must make sure that feature-requests are synchronized with UHID_DESTROY and close() events. We must not dead-lock when closing the HID device, either, so we have to use separate locks. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: forward raw output reports to user-spaceDavid Herrmann1-0/+14
Some drivers that use non-standard HID features require raw output reports sent to the device. We now forward these requests directly to user-space so the transport-level driver can correctly send it to the device or handle it correspondingly. There is no way to signal back whether the transmission was successful, moreover, there might be lots of messages coming out from the driver flushing the output-queue. However, there is currently no driver that causes this so we are safe. If some drivers need to transmit lots of data this way, we need a method to synchronize this and can implement another UHID_OUTPUT_SYNC event. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: forward output request to user-spaceDavid Herrmann1-0/+8
If the hid-driver wants to send standardized data to the device it uses a linux input_event. We forward this to the user-space transport-level driver so they can perform the requested action on the device. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: forward open/close events to user-spaceDavid Herrmann1-0/+2
HID core notifies us with *_open/*_close callbacks when there is an actual user of our device. We forward these to user-space so they can react on this. This allows user-space to skip I/O unless they receive an OPEN event. When they receive a CLOSE event they can stop I/O again to save energy. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: add UHID_START and UHID_STOP eventsDavid Herrmann1-0/+2
We send UHID_START and UHID_STOP events to user-space when the HID core starts/stops the device. This notifies user-space about driver readiness and data-I/O can start now. This directly forwards the callbacks from hid-core to user-space. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: allow feeding input data into uhid devicesDavid Herrmann1-0/+9
This adds a new event type UHID_INPUT which allows user-space to feed raw HID reports into the HID subsystem. We copy the data into kernel memory and directly feed it into the HID core. There is no error handling of the events couldn't be parsed so user-space should consider all events successfull unless read() returns an error. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: add UHID_CREATE and UHID_DESTROY eventsDavid Herrmann1-1/+20
UHID_CREATE and UHID_DESTROY are used to create and destroy a device on an open uhid char-device. Internally, we allocate and register an HID device with the HID core and immediately start the device. From now on events may be received or sent to the device. The UHID_CREATE event has a payload similar to the data used by Bluetooth-HIDP when creating a new connection. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-06-18HID: uhid: add internal message bufferDavid Herrmann1-0/+33
When receiving messages from the HID subsystem, we need to process them and store them in an internal buffer so user-space can read() on the char device to retrieve the messages. This adds a static buffer for 32 messages to each uhid device. Each message is dynamically allocated so the uhid_device structure does not get too big. uhid_queue() adds a message to the buffer. If the buffer is full, the message is discarded. uhid_queue_event() is an helper for messages without payload. This also adds a public header: uhid.h. It contains the declarations for the user-space API. It is built around "struct uhid_event" which contains a type field which specifies the event type and each event can then add a variable-length payload. For now, there is only a dummy event but later patches will add new event types and payloads. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>