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diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hid-sensor.txt b/Documentation/hid/hid-sensor.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..948b0989c43 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hid/hid-sensor.txt @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ + +HID Sensors Framework +====================== +HID sensor framework provides necessary interfaces to implement sensor drivers, +which are connected to a sensor hub. The sensor hub is a HID device and it provides +a report descriptor conforming to HID 1.12 sensor usage tables. + +Description from the HID 1.12 "HID Sensor Usages" specification: +"Standardization of HID usages for sensors would allow (but not require) sensor +hardware vendors to provide a consistent Plug And Play interface at the USB boundary, +thereby enabling some operating systems to incorporate common device drivers that +could be reused between vendors, alleviating any need for the vendors to provide +the drivers themselves." + +This specification describes many usage IDs, which describe the type of sensor +and also the individual data fields. Each sensor can have variable number of +data fields. The length and order is specified in the report descriptor. For +example a part of report descriptor can look like: + + INPUT(1)[INPUT] + .. + Field(2) + Physical(0020.0073) + Usage(1) + 0020.045f + Logical Minimum(-32767) + Logical Maximum(32767) + Report Size(8) + Report Count(1) + Report Offset(16) + Flags(Variable Absolute) +.. +.. + +The report is indicating "sensor page (0x20)" contains an accelerometer-3D (0x73). +This accelerometer-3D has some fields. Here for example field 2 is motion intensity +(0x045f) with a logical minimum value of -32767 and logical maximum of 32767. The +order of fields and length of each field is important as the input event raw +data will use this format. + + +Implementation +================= + +This specification defines many different types of sensors with different sets of +data fields. It is difficult to have a common input event to user space applications, +for different sensors. For example an accelerometer can send X,Y and Z data, whereas +an ambient light sensor can send illumination data. +So the implementation has two parts: +- Core hid driver +- Individual sensor processing part (sensor drivers) + +Core driver +----------- +The core driver registers (hid-sensor-hub) registers as a HID driver. It parses +report descriptors and identifies all the sensors present. It adds an MFD device +with name HID-SENSOR-xxxx (where xxxx is usage id from the specification). +For example +HID-SENSOR-200073 is registered for an Accelerometer 3D driver. +So if any driver with this name is inserted, then the probe routine for that +function will be called. So an accelerometer processing driver can register +with this name and will be probed if there is an accelerometer-3D detected. + +The core driver provides a set of APIs which can be used by the processing +drivers to register and get events for that usage id. Also it provides parsing +functions, which get and set each input/feature/output report. + +Individual sensor processing part (sensor drivers) +----------- +The processing driver will use an interface provided by the core driver to parse +the report and get the indexes of the fields and also can get events. This driver +can use IIO interface to use the standard ABI defined for a type of sensor. + + +Core driver Interface +===================== + +Callback structure: +Each processing driver can use this structure to set some callbacks. + int (*suspend)(..): Callback when HID suspend is received + int (*resume)(..): Callback when HID resume is received + int (*capture_sample)(..): Capture a sample for one of its data fields + int (*send_event)(..): One complete event is received which can have + multiple data fields. + +Registration functions: +int sensor_hub_register_callback(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, + u32 usage_id, + struct hid_sensor_hub_callbacks *usage_callback): + +Registers callbacks for an usage id. The callback functions are not allowed +to sleep. + + +int sensor_hub_remove_callback(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, + u32 usage_id): + +Removes callbacks for an usage id. + + +Parsing function: +int sensor_hub_input_get_attribute_info(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, + u8 type, + u32 usage_id, u32 attr_usage_id, + struct hid_sensor_hub_attribute_info *info); + +A processing driver can look for some field of interest and check if it exists +in a report descriptor. If it exists it will store necessary information +so that fields can be set or get individually. +These indexes avoid searching every time and getting field index to get or set. + + +Set Feature report +int sensor_hub_set_feature(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, u32 report_id, + u32 field_index, s32 value); + +This interface is used to set a value for a field in feature report. For example +if there is a field report_interval, which is parsed by a call to +sensor_hub_input_get_attribute_info before, then it can directly set that individual +field. + + +int sensor_hub_get_feature(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, u32 report_id, + u32 field_index, s32 *value); + +This interface is used to get a value for a field in input report. For example +if there is a field report_interval, which is parsed by a call to +sensor_hub_input_get_attribute_info before, then it can directly get that individual +field value. + + +int sensor_hub_input_attr_get_raw_value(struct hid_sensor_hub_device *hsdev, + u32 usage_id, + u32 attr_usage_id, u32 report_id); + +This is used to get a particular field value through input reports. For example +accelerometer wants to poll X axis value, then it can call this function with +the usage id of X axis. HID sensors can provide events, so this is not necessary +to poll for any field. If there is some new sample, the core driver will call +registered callback function to process the sample. diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.txt b/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3dcba9fd4a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.txt @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@ + HID I/O Transport Drivers + =========================== + +The HID subsystem is independent of the underlying transport driver. Initially, +only USB was supported, but other specifications adopted the HID design and +provided new transport drivers. The kernel includes at least support for USB, +Bluetooth, I2C and user-space I/O drivers. + +1) HID Bus +========== + +The HID subsystem is designed as a bus. Any I/O subsystem may provide HID +devices and register them with the HID bus. HID core then loads generic device +drivers on top of it. The transport drivers are responsible of raw data +transport and device setup/management. HID core is responsible of +report-parsing, report interpretation and the user-space API. Device specifics +and quirks are handled by all layers depending on the quirk. + + +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ + | Device #1 | | Device #i | | Device #j | | Device #k | + +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ + \\ // \\ // + +------------+ +------------+ + | I/O Driver | | I/O Driver | + +------------+ +------------+ + || || + +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Transport Driver | | Transport Driver | + +------------------+ +------------------+ + \___ ___/ + \ / + +----------------+ + | HID Core | + +----------------+ + / | | \ + / | | \ + ____________/ | | \_________________ + / | | \ + / | | \ + +----------------+ +-----------+ +------------------+ +------------------+ + | Generic Driver | | MT Driver | | Custom Driver #1 | | Custom Driver #2 | + +----------------+ +-----------+ +------------------+ +------------------+ + +Example Drivers: + I/O: USB, I2C, Bluetooth-l2cap + Transport: USB-HID, I2C-HID, BT-HIDP + +Everything below "HID Core" is simplified in this graph as it is only of +interest to HID device drivers. Transport drivers do not need to know the +specifics. + +1.1) Device Setup +----------------- + +I/O drivers normally provide hotplug detection or device enumeration APIs to the +transport drivers. Transport drivers use this to find any suitable HID device. +They allocate HID device objects and register them with HID core. Transport +drivers are not required to register themselves with HID core. HID core is never +aware of which transport drivers are available and is not interested in it. It +is only interested in devices. + +Transport drivers attach a constant "struct hid_ll_driver" object with each +device. Once a device is registered with HID core, the callbacks provided via +this struct are used by HID core to communicate with the device. + +Transport drivers are responsible of detecting device failures and unplugging. +HID core will operate a device as long as it is registered regardless of any +device failures. Once transport drivers detect unplug or failure events, they +must unregister the device from HID core and HID core will stop using the +provided callbacks. + +1.2) Transport Driver Requirements +---------------------------------- + +The terms "asynchronous" and "synchronous" in this document describe the +transmission behavior regarding acknowledgements. An asynchronous channel must +not perform any synchronous operations like waiting for acknowledgements or +verifications. Generally, HID calls operating on asynchronous channels must be +running in atomic-context just fine. +On the other hand, synchronous channels can be implemented by the transport +driver in whatever way they like. They might just be the same as asynchronous +channels, but they can also provide acknowledgement reports, automatic +retransmission on failure, etc. in a blocking manner. If such functionality is +required on asynchronous channels, a transport-driver must implement that via +its own worker threads. + +HID core requires transport drivers to follow a given design. A Transport +driver must provide two bi-directional I/O channels to each HID device. These +channels must not necessarily be bi-directional in the hardware itself. A +transport driver might just provide 4 uni-directional channels. Or it might +multiplex all four on a single physical channel. However, in this document we +will describe them as two bi-directional channels as they have several +properties in common. + + - Interrupt Channel (intr): The intr channel is used for asynchronous data + reports. No management commands or data acknowledgements are sent on this + channel. Any unrequested incoming or outgoing data report must be sent on + this channel and is never acknowledged by the remote side. Devices usually + send their input events on this channel. Outgoing events are normally + not send via intr, except if high throughput is required. + - Control Channel (ctrl): The ctrl channel is used for synchronous requests and + device management. Unrequested data input events must not be sent on this + channel and are normally ignored. Instead, devices only send management + events or answers to host requests on this channel. + The control-channel is used for direct blocking queries to the device + independent of any events on the intr-channel. + Outgoing reports are usually sent on the ctrl channel via synchronous + SET_REPORT requests. + +Communication between devices and HID core is mostly done via HID reports. A +report can be of one of three types: + + - INPUT Report: Input reports provide data from device to host. This + data may include button events, axis events, battery status or more. This + data is generated by the device and sent to the host with or without + requiring explicit requests. Devices can choose to send data continuously or + only on change. + - OUTPUT Report: Output reports change device states. They are sent from host + to device and may include LED requests, rumble requests or more. Output + reports are never sent from device to host, but a host can retrieve their + current state. + Hosts may choose to send output reports either continuously or only on + change. + - FEATURE Report: Feature reports are used for specific static device features + and never reported spontaneously. A host can read and/or write them to access + data like battery-state or device-settings. + Feature reports are never sent without requests. A host must explicitly set + or retrieve a feature report. This also means, feature reports are never sent + on the intr channel as this channel is asynchronous. + +INPUT and OUTPUT reports can be sent as pure data reports on the intr channel. +For INPUT reports this is the usual operational mode. But for OUTPUT reports, +this is rarely done as OUTPUT reports are normally quite scarce. But devices are +free to make excessive use of asynchronous OUTPUT reports (for instance, custom +HID audio speakers make great use of it). + +Plain reports must not be sent on the ctrl channel, though. Instead, the ctrl +channel provides synchronous GET/SET_REPORT requests. Plain reports are only +allowed on the intr channel and are the only means of data there. + + - GET_REPORT: A GET_REPORT request has a report ID as payload and is sent + from host to device. The device must answer with a data report for the + requested report ID on the ctrl channel as a synchronous acknowledgement. + Only one GET_REPORT request can be pending for each device. This restriction + is enforced by HID core as several transport drivers don't allow multiple + simultaneous GET_REPORT requests. + Note that data reports which are sent as answer to a GET_REPORT request are + not handled as generic device events. That is, if a device does not operate + in continuous data reporting mode, an answer to GET_REPORT does not replace + the raw data report on the intr channel on state change. + GET_REPORT is only used by custom HID device drivers to query device state. + Normally, HID core caches any device state so this request is not necessary + on devices that follow the HID specs except during device initialization to + retrieve the current state. + GET_REPORT requests can be sent for any of the 3 report types and shall + return the current report state of the device. However, OUTPUT reports as + payload may be blocked by the underlying transport driver if the + specification does not allow them. + - SET_REPORT: A SET_REPORT request has a report ID plus data as payload. It is + sent from host to device and a device must update it's current report state + according to the given data. Any of the 3 report types can be used. However, + INPUT reports as payload might be blocked by the underlying transport driver + if the specification does not allow them. + A device must answer with a synchronous acknowledgement. However, HID core + does not require transport drivers to forward this acknowledgement to HID + core. + Same as for GET_REPORT, only one SET_REPORT can be pending at a time. This + restriction is enforced by HID core as some transport drivers do not support + multiple synchronous SET_REPORT requests. + +Other ctrl-channel requests are supported by USB-HID but are not available +(or deprecated) in most other transport level specifications: + + - GET/SET_IDLE: Only used by USB-HID and I2C-HID. + - GET/SET_PROTOCOL: Not used by HID core. + - RESET: Used by I2C-HID, not hooked up in HID core. + - SET_POWER: Used by I2C-HID, not hooked up in HID core. + +2) HID API +========== + +2.1) Initialization +------------------- + +Transport drivers normally use the following procedure to register a new device +with HID core: + + struct hid_device *hid; + int ret; + + hid = hid_allocate_device(); + if (IS_ERR(hid)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(hid); + goto err_<...>; + } + + strlcpy(hid->name, <device-name-src>, 127); + strlcpy(hid->phys, <device-phys-src>, 63); + strlcpy(hid->uniq, <device-uniq-src>, 63); + + hid->ll_driver = &custom_ll_driver; + hid->bus = <device-bus>; + hid->vendor = <device-vendor>; + hid->product = <device-product>; + hid->version = <device-version>; + hid->country = <device-country>; + hid->dev.parent = <pointer-to-parent-device>; + hid->driver_data = <transport-driver-data-field>; + + ret = hid_add_device(hid); + if (ret) + goto err_<...>; + +Once hid_add_device() is entered, HID core might use the callbacks provided in +"custom_ll_driver". Note that fields like "country" can be ignored by underlying +transport-drivers if not supported. + +To unregister a device, use: + + hid_destroy_device(hid); + +Once hid_destroy_device() returns, HID core will no longer make use of any +driver callbacks. + +2.2) hid_ll_driver operations +----------------------------- + +The available HID callbacks are: + - int (*start) (struct hid_device *hdev) + Called from HID device drivers once they want to use the device. Transport + drivers can choose to setup their device in this callback. However, normally + devices are already set up before transport drivers register them to HID core + so this is mostly only used by USB-HID. + + - void (*stop) (struct hid_device *hdev) + Called from HID device drivers once they are done with a device. Transport + drivers can free any buffers and deinitialize the device. But note that + ->start() might be called again if another HID device driver is loaded on the + device. + Transport drivers are free to ignore it and deinitialize devices after they + destroyed them via hid_destroy_device(). + + - int (*open) (struct hid_device *hdev) + Called from HID device drivers once they are interested in data reports. + Usually, while user-space didn't open any input API/etc., device drivers are + not interested in device data and transport drivers can put devices asleep. + However, once ->open() is called, transport drivers must be ready for I/O. + ->open() calls are nested for each client that opens the HID device. + + - void (*close) (struct hid_device *hdev) + Called from HID device drivers after ->open() was called but they are no + longer interested in device reports. (Usually if user-space closed any input + devices of the driver). + Transport drivers can put devices asleep and terminate any I/O of all + ->open() calls have been followed by a ->close() call. However, ->start() may + be called again if the device driver is interested in input reports again. + + - int (*parse) (struct hid_device *hdev) + Called once during device setup after ->start() has been called. Transport + drivers must read the HID report-descriptor from the device and tell HID core + about it via hid_parse_report(). + + - int (*power) (struct hid_device *hdev, int level) + Called by HID core to give PM hints to transport drivers. Usually this is + analogical to the ->open() and ->close() hints and redundant. + + - void (*request) (struct hid_device *hdev, struct hid_report *report, + int reqtype) + Send an HID request on the ctrl channel. "report" contains the report that + should be sent and "reqtype" the request type. Request-type can be + HID_REQ_SET_REPORT or HID_REQ_GET_REPORT. + This callback is optional. If not provided, HID core will assemble a raw + report following the HID specs and send it via the ->raw_request() callback. + The transport driver is free to implement this asynchronously. + + - int (*wait) (struct hid_device *hdev) + Used by HID core before calling ->request() again. A transport driver can use + it to wait for any pending requests to complete if only one request is + allowed at a time. + + - int (*raw_request) (struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned char reportnum, + __u8 *buf, size_t count, unsigned char rtype, + int reqtype) + Same as ->request() but provides the report as raw buffer. This request shall + be synchronous. A transport driver must not use ->wait() to complete such + requests. This request is mandatory and hid core will reject the device if + it is missing. + + - int (*output_report) (struct hid_device *hdev, __u8 *buf, size_t len) + Send raw output report via intr channel. Used by some HID device drivers + which require high throughput for outgoing requests on the intr channel. This + must not cause SET_REPORT calls! This must be implemented as asynchronous + output report on the intr channel! + + - int (*idle) (struct hid_device *hdev, int report, int idle, int reqtype) + Perform SET/GET_IDLE request. Only used by USB-HID, do not implement! + +2.3) Data Path +-------------- + +Transport drivers are responsible of reading data from I/O devices. They must +handle any I/O-related state-tracking themselves. HID core does not implement +protocol handshakes or other management commands which can be required by the +given HID transport specification. + +Every raw data packet read from a device must be fed into HID core via +hid_input_report(). You must specify the channel-type (intr or ctrl) and report +type (input/output/feature). Under normal conditions, only input reports are +provided via this API. + +Responses to GET_REPORT requests via ->request() must also be provided via this +API. Responses to ->raw_request() are synchronous and must be intercepted by the +transport driver and not passed to hid_input_report(). +Acknowledgements to SET_REPORT requests are not of interest to HID core. + +---------------------------------------------------- +Written 2013, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> diff --git a/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt b/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..54c8f9706a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hid/uhid.txt @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ + UHID - User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem + ======================================================== + +The HID subsystem needs two kinds of drivers. In this document we call them: + + 1. The "HID I/O Driver" is the driver that performs raw data I/O to the + low-level device. Internally, they register an hid_ll_driver structure with + the HID core. They perform device setup, read raw data from the device and + push it into the HID subsystem and they provide a callback so the HID + subsystem can send data to the device. + + 2. The "HID Device Driver" is the driver that parses HID reports and reacts on + them. There are generic drivers like "generic-usb" and "generic-bluetooth" + which adhere to the HID specification and provide the standardizes features. + But there may be special drivers and quirks for each non-standard device out + there. Internally, they use the hid_driver structure. + +Historically, the USB stack was the first subsystem to provide an HID I/O +Driver. However, other standards like Bluetooth have adopted the HID specs and +may provide HID I/O Drivers, too. The UHID driver allows to implement HID I/O +Drivers in user-space and feed the data into the kernel HID-subsystem. + +This allows user-space to operate on the same level as USB-HID, Bluetooth-HID +and similar. It does not provide a way to write HID Device Drivers, though. Use +hidraw for this purpose. + +There is an example user-space application in ./samples/uhid/uhid-example.c + +The UHID API +------------ + +UHID is accessed through a character misc-device. The minor-number is allocated +dynamically so you need to rely on udev (or similar) to create the device node. +This is /dev/uhid by default. + +If a new device is detected by your HID I/O Driver and you want to register this +device with the HID subsystem, then you need to open /dev/uhid once for each +device you want to register. All further communication is done by read()'ing or +write()'ing "struct uhid_event" objects. Non-blocking operations are supported +by setting O_NONBLOCK. + +struct uhid_event { + __u32 type; + union { + struct uhid_create_req create; + struct uhid_data_req data; + ... + } u; +}; + +The "type" field contains the ID of the event. Depending on the ID different +payloads are sent. You must not split a single event across multiple read()'s or +multiple write()'s. A single event must always be sent as a whole. Furthermore, +only a single event can be sent per read() or write(). Pending data is ignored. +If you want to handle multiple events in a single syscall, then use vectored +I/O with readv()/writev(). + +The first thing you should do is sending an UHID_CREATE event. This will +register the device. UHID will respond with an UHID_START event. You can now +start sending data to and reading data from UHID. However, unless UHID sends the +UHID_OPEN event, the internally attached HID Device Driver has no user attached. +That is, you might put your device asleep unless you receive the UHID_OPEN +event. If you receive the UHID_OPEN event, you should start I/O. If the last +user closes the HID device, you will receive an UHID_CLOSE event. This may be +followed by an UHID_OPEN event again and so on. There is no need to perform +reference-counting in user-space. That is, you will never receive multiple +UHID_OPEN events without an UHID_CLOSE event. The HID subsystem performs +ref-counting for you. +You may decide to ignore UHID_OPEN/UHID_CLOSE, though. I/O is allowed even +though the device may have no users. + +If you want to send data to the HID subsystem, you send an HID_INPUT event with +your raw data payload. If the kernel wants to send data to the device, you will +read an UHID_OUTPUT or UHID_OUTPUT_EV event. + +If your device disconnects, you should send an UHID_DESTROY event. This will +unregister the device. You can now send UHID_CREATE again to register a new +device. +If you close() the fd, the device is automatically unregistered and destroyed +internally. + +write() +------- +write() allows you to modify the state of the device and feed input data into +the kernel. The following types are supported: UHID_CREATE, UHID_DESTROY and +UHID_INPUT. The kernel will parse the event immediately and if the event ID is +not supported, it will return -EOPNOTSUPP. If the payload is invalid, then +-EINVAL is returned, otherwise, the amount of data that was read is returned and +the request was handled successfully. + + UHID_CREATE: + This creates the internal HID device. No I/O is possible until you send this + event to the kernel. The payload is of type struct uhid_create_req and + contains information about your device. You can start I/O now. + + UHID_CREATE2: + Same as UHID_CREATE, but the HID report descriptor data (rd_data) is an array + inside struct uhid_create2_req, instead of a pointer to a separate array. + Enables use from languages that don't support pointers, e.g. Python. + + UHID_DESTROY: + This destroys the internal HID device. No further I/O will be accepted. There + may still be pending messages that you can receive with read() but no further + UHID_INPUT events can be sent to the kernel. + You can create a new device by sending UHID_CREATE again. There is no need to + reopen the character device. + + UHID_INPUT: + You must send UHID_CREATE before sending input to the kernel! This event + contains a data-payload. This is the raw data that you read from your device. + The kernel will parse the HID reports and react on it. + + UHID_INPUT2: + Same as UHID_INPUT, but the data array is the last field of uhid_input2_req. + Enables userspace to write only the required bytes to kernel (ev.type + + ev.u.input2.size + the part of the data array that matters), instead of + the entire struct uhid_input2_req. + + UHID_FEATURE_ANSWER: + If you receive a UHID_FEATURE request you must answer with this request. You + must copy the "id" field from the request into the answer. Set the "err" field + to 0 if no error occurred or to EIO if an I/O error occurred. + If "err" is 0 then you should fill the buffer of the answer with the results + of the feature request and set "size" correspondingly. + +read() +------ +read() will return a queued output report. These output reports can be of type +UHID_START, UHID_STOP, UHID_OPEN, UHID_CLOSE, UHID_OUTPUT or UHID_OUTPUT_EV. No +reaction is required to any of them but you should handle them according to your +needs. Only UHID_OUTPUT and UHID_OUTPUT_EV have payloads. + + UHID_START: + This is sent when the HID device is started. Consider this as an answer to + UHID_CREATE. This is always the first event that is sent. + + UHID_STOP: + This is sent when the HID device is stopped. Consider this as an answer to + UHID_DESTROY. + If the kernel HID device driver closes the device manually (that is, you + didn't send UHID_DESTROY) then you should consider this device closed and send + an UHID_DESTROY event. You may want to reregister your device, though. This is + always the last message that is sent to you unless you reopen the device with + UHID_CREATE. + + UHID_OPEN: + This is sent when the HID device is opened. That is, the data that the HID + device provides is read by some other process. You may ignore this event but + it is useful for power-management. As long as you haven't received this event + there is actually no other process that reads your data so there is no need to + send UHID_INPUT events to the kernel. + + UHID_CLOSE: + This is sent when there are no more processes which read the HID data. It is + the counterpart of UHID_OPEN and you may as well ignore this event. + + UHID_OUTPUT: + This is sent if the HID device driver wants to send raw data to the I/O + device. You should read the payload and forward it to the device. The payload + is of type "struct uhid_data_req". + This may be received even though you haven't received UHID_OPEN, yet. + + UHID_OUTPUT_EV (obsolete): + Same as UHID_OUTPUT but this contains a "struct input_event" as payload. This + is called for force-feedback, LED or similar events which are received through + an input device by the HID subsystem. You should convert this into raw reports + and send them to your device similar to events of type UHID_OUTPUT. + This is no longer sent by newer kernels. Instead, HID core converts it into a + raw output report and sends it via UHID_OUTPUT. + + UHID_FEATURE: + This event is sent if the kernel driver wants to perform a feature request as + described in the HID specs. The report-type and report-number are available in + the payload. + The kernel serializes feature requests so there will never be two in parallel. + However, if you fail to respond with a UHID_FEATURE_ANSWER in a time-span of 5 + seconds, then the requests will be dropped and a new one might be sent. + Therefore, the payload also contains an "id" field that identifies every + request. + +Document by: + David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> |