On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

I don't know what to do about hiddev too. I don't know if we have actual 
users besides some debugging tools. And hidraw is much better than 
hiddev, so ideally, I'd like to remove it some way.

First, I'd love to get rid of HID_QUIRK_NO_INIT_REPORTS; I am 
whole-heartedly convinced that initializing reports was a big mistake to 
start with, but changing history is hard :)

Regarding hiddev -- there actually are 'legitimate' non-debug users; for 
example NUT (UPS management software) has been using it last time I 
looked. I am pretty sure there are more.

So we'd rather be careful not to break hiddev by default.

I'll think about your RFC a little bit more.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs