From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: "José Expósito" <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
Cc: benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] HID: uclogic: Expose firmware name
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 13:51:28 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.2404031351210.20263@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240322100210.107152-2-jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, José Expósito wrote:
> Some vendors reuse the same product ID for different tablets, making it
> difficult for userspace to figure out which table is connected.
> While matching the device name has been used in the past by userspace to
> workaround this limitation, some devices have shown that this is not
> always a valid approach [1].
>
> However, if userspace could access the firmware version name, it would
> be possible to know which tablet is actually connected by matching it
> against a list of known firmware names [2].
>
> This patch exposes the firmware version name in the hid->uniq field.
>
> Link: https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom/issues/609 [1]
> Link: https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom/issues/610 [2]
> Signed-off-by: José Expósito <jose.exposito89@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-22 9:59 [PATCH v2 0/1] Expose firmware name to identify tablets in libwacom José Expósito
2024-03-22 9:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] HID: uclogic: Expose firmware name José Expósito
2024-04-03 11:51 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
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