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Commit 7c7d7ac7 authored by Dmitry Torokhov's avatar Dmitry Torokhov Committed by Jiri Kosina
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HID: hid-input: avoid splitting keyboard, system and consumer controls



A typical USB keyboard usually splits its keys into several reports:

- one for the basic alphanumeric keys, modifier keys, F<n> keys, six pack
  keys and keypad. This report's application is normally listed as
  GenericDesktop.Keyboard
- a GenericDesktop.SystemControl report for the system control keys, such
  as power and sleep
- Consumer.ConsumerControl report for multimedia (forward, rewind,
  play/pause, mute, etc) and other extended keys.
- additional output, vendor specific, and feature reports

Splitting each report into a separate input device is wasteful and even
hurts userspace as it makes it harder to determine the true capabilities
(set of available keys) of a keyboard, so let's adjust application
matching to merge system control and consumer control reports with
keyboard report, if one has already been processed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent ed9be64e
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