[PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Dmitry Antipov]

Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
---
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c      |  3 +++
 drivers/hid/hid-ids.h       |  2 ++
 drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
 drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c    |  2 ++
 include/linux/hid.h         |  2 ++
 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 7db332139f7d..123a0e3a6b1a 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
 	case BUS_I2C:
 		bus = "I2C";
 		break;
+	case BUS_SPI:
+		bus = "SPI";
+		break;
 	case BUS_VIRTUAL:
 		bus = "VIRTUAL";
 		break;
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
index 8f1893e68112..5c181d23a7ae 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
@@ -885,6 +885,8 @@
 #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_XBOX_ONE_S_CONTROLLER	0x02fd
 #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PIXART_MOUSE    0x00cb
 #define USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS      0x02e0
+#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0	0x0c1d
+#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1	0x0c42
 
 #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MOJO		0x8282
 #define USB_DEVICE_ID_RETRO_ADAPTER	0x3201
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
index 071fd093a5f4..50ea1f68c285 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #define MS_DUPLICATE_USAGES	BIT(5)
 #define MS_SURFACE_DIAL		BIT(6)
 #define MS_QUIRK_FF		BIT(7)
+#define MS_NOHIDINPUT		BIT(8)
 
 struct ms_data {
 	unsigned long quirks;
@@ -367,6 +368,7 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
 	unsigned long quirks = id->driver_data;
 	struct ms_data *ms;
 	int ret;
+	unsigned int connect_mask;
 
 	ms = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*ms), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ms == NULL)
@@ -376,20 +378,25 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
 
 	hid_set_drvdata(hdev, ms);
 
+	connect_mask = HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
+			HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0);
+
 	if (quirks & MS_NOGET)
 		hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_NOGET;
 
 	if (quirks & MS_SURFACE_DIAL)
 		hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP;
 
+	if (quirks & MS_NOHIDINPUT)
+		connect_mask &= ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT;
+
 	ret = hid_parse(hdev);
 	if (ret) {
 		hid_err(hdev, "parse failed\n");
 		goto err_free;
 	}
 
-	ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
-				HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0));
+	ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, connect_mask);
 	if (ret) {
 		hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n");
 		goto err_free;
@@ -450,6 +457,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id ms_devices[] = {
 		.driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
 	{ HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS),
 		.driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
+	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0),
+		.driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
+	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1),
+		.driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
 	{ }
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(hid, ms_devices);
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
index 51b39bda9a9d..01609e5425b9 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
@@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_have_special_driver[] = {
 	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_DIGITAL_MEDIA_3KV1) },
 	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_POWER_COVER) },
 	{ HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PRESENTER_8K_BT) },
+	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0) },
+	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1) },
 #endif
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HID_MONTEREY)
 	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MONTEREY, USB_DEVICE_ID_GENIUS_KB29E) },
diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
index 9e067f937dbc..32823c6b65f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/hid.h
+++ b/include/linux/hid.h
@@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ struct hid_descriptor {
 	.bus = BUS_BLUETOOTH, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
 #define HID_I2C_DEVICE(ven, prod)				\
 	.bus = BUS_I2C, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
+#define HID_SPI_DEVICE(ven, prod)				\
+	.bus = BUS_SPI, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
 
 #define HID_REPORT_ID(rep) \
 	.report_type = (rep)
-- 
2.25.1

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> writes:
> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.

commit log should be broken down at 72 characters

> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com

this is not the correct way of adding your Signed-off-by line, I'm
afraid. It should look like this:

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmanti@microsoft.com>

> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c      |  3 +++
>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h       |  2 ++
>  drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c    |  2 ++
>  include/linux/hid.h         |  2 ++
>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> index 7db332139f7d..123a0e3a6b1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> @@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
>  	case BUS_I2C:
>  		bus = "I2C";
>  		break;
> +	case BUS_SPI:
> +		bus = "SPI";
> +		break;
>  	case BUS_VIRTUAL:
>  		bus = "VIRTUAL";
>  		break;

this should come as its own patch since it's not directly related to $subject

> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> index 8f1893e68112..5c181d23a7ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> @@ -885,6 +885,8 @@
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_XBOX_ONE_S_CONTROLLER	0x02fd
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PIXART_MOUSE    0x00cb
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS      0x02e0
> +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0	0x0c1d
> +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1	0x0c42
>  
>  #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MOJO		0x8282
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_RETRO_ADAPTER	0x3201
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> index 071fd093a5f4..50ea1f68c285 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #define MS_DUPLICATE_USAGES	BIT(5)
>  #define MS_SURFACE_DIAL		BIT(6)
>  #define MS_QUIRK_FF		BIT(7)
> +#define MS_NOHIDINPUT		BIT(8)
>  
>  struct ms_data {
>  	unsigned long quirks;
> @@ -367,6 +368,7 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>  	unsigned long quirks = id->driver_data;
>  	struct ms_data *ms;
>  	int ret;
> +	unsigned int connect_mask;
>  
>  	ms = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*ms), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (ms == NULL)
> @@ -376,20 +378,25 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>  
>  	hid_set_drvdata(hdev, ms);
>  
> +	connect_mask = HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> +			HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0);
> +
>  	if (quirks & MS_NOGET)
>  		hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_NOGET;
>  
>  	if (quirks & MS_SURFACE_DIAL)
>  		hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP;
>  
> +	if (quirks & MS_NOHIDINPUT)
> +		connect_mask &= ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT;
> +
>  	ret = hid_parse(hdev);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		hid_err(hdev, "parse failed\n");
>  		goto err_free;
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> -				HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0));
> +	ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, connect_mask);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n");
>  		goto err_free;

it looks like adding connect_mask could also be done as a separate
patch where the first patch just converts the existing code to use
connect_mask and addition for both G6 IDs is done separately

> @@ -450,6 +457,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id ms_devices[] = {
>  		.driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
>  	{ HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS),
>  		.driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
> +	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0),
> +		.driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
> +	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1),
> +		.driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
>  	{ }
>  };
>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(hid, ms_devices);
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> index 51b39bda9a9d..01609e5425b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> @@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_have_special_driver[] = {
>  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_DIGITAL_MEDIA_3KV1) },
>  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_POWER_COVER) },
>  	{ HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PRESENTER_8K_BT) },
> +	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0) },
> +	{ HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1) },
>  #endif
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HID_MONTEREY)
>  	{ HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MONTEREY, USB_DEVICE_ID_GENIUS_KB29E) },
> diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
> index 9e067f937dbc..32823c6b65f6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hid.h
> @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ struct hid_descriptor {
>  	.bus = BUS_BLUETOOTH, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
>  #define HID_I2C_DEVICE(ven, prod)				\
>  	.bus = BUS_I2C, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
> +#define HID_SPI_DEVICE(ven, prod)				\
> +	.bus = BUS_SPI, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)

Adding this helper should be done as a seperate too.

-- 
balbi

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Benjamin Tissoires]

Hi Dmitry,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com

Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".

AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.

Why is there a special need for us to take this one without the whole series?

Couple of additions to what Felipe said:

> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c      |  3 +++
>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h       |  2 ++
>  drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c    |  2 ++
>  include/linux/hid.h         |  2 ++
>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> index 7db332139f7d..123a0e3a6b1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> @@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
>         case BUS_I2C:
>                 bus = "I2C";
>                 break;
> +       case BUS_SPI:
> +               bus = "SPI";
> +               break;

I'd like to have the SPI specific changes that are touching hid core
in a separate patch, or with the SPI-HID transport layer.

>         case BUS_VIRTUAL:
>                 bus = "VIRTUAL";
>                 break;
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> index 8f1893e68112..5c181d23a7ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> @@ -885,6 +885,8 @@
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_XBOX_ONE_S_CONTROLLER 0x02fd
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PIXART_MOUSE    0x00cb
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS      0x02e0
> +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0  0x0c1d
> +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1  0x0c42
>
>  #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MOJO             0x8282
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_RETRO_ADAPTER    0x3201
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> index 071fd093a5f4..50ea1f68c285 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #define MS_DUPLICATE_USAGES    BIT(5)
>  #define MS_SURFACE_DIAL                BIT(6)
>  #define MS_QUIRK_FF            BIT(7)
> +#define MS_NOHIDINPUT          BIT(8)
>
>  struct ms_data {
>         unsigned long quirks;
> @@ -367,6 +368,7 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>         unsigned long quirks = id->driver_data;
>         struct ms_data *ms;
>         int ret;
> +       unsigned int connect_mask;
>
>         ms = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*ms), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (ms == NULL)
> @@ -376,20 +378,25 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>
>         hid_set_drvdata(hdev, ms);
>
> +       connect_mask = HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> +                       HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0);
> +
>         if (quirks & MS_NOGET)
>                 hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_NOGET;
>
>         if (quirks & MS_SURFACE_DIAL)
>                 hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP;
>
> +       if (quirks & MS_NOHIDINPUT)
> +               connect_mask &= ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT;
> +
>         ret = hid_parse(hdev);
>         if (ret) {
>                 hid_err(hdev, "parse failed\n");
>                 goto err_free;
>         }
>
> -       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> -                               HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0));
> +       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, connect_mask);
>         if (ret) {
>                 hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n");
>                 goto err_free;
> @@ -450,6 +457,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id ms_devices[] = {
>                 .driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
>         { HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS),
>                 .driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0),
> +               .driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1),
> +               .driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
>         { }
>  };
>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(hid, ms_devices);
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> index 51b39bda9a9d..01609e5425b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> @@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_have_special_driver[] = {
>         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_DIGITAL_MEDIA_3KV1) },
>         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_POWER_COVER) },
>         { HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PRESENTER_8K_BT) },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0) },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1) },

This hunk should be dropped if it just works without. If it doesn't
work without it, we probably need to fix why.
So, yes, please drop these additions to hid-quirks :)

>  #endif
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HID_MONTEREY)
>         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MONTEREY, USB_DEVICE_ID_GENIUS_KB29E) },
> diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
> index 9e067f937dbc..32823c6b65f6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hid.h
> @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ struct hid_descriptor {
>         .bus = BUS_BLUETOOTH, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
>  #define HID_I2C_DEVICE(ven, prod)                              \
>         .bus = BUS_I2C, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
> +#define HID_SPI_DEVICE(ven, prod)                              \
> +       .bus = BUS_SPI, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)

That one should be separated and merged with the first hunk.

Cheers,
Benjamin

>
>  #define HID_REPORT_ID(rep) \
>         .report_type = (rep)
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi Benjamin,

Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
>> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
>> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
>> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
>> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
>
> Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
> commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
> inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
>
> AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
> code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.

Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
couldn't find).

I _do_ have one question though:

Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we
remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?

-- 
balbi

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:16 PM Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> >> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> >> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> >> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> >> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
> >
> > Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
> > commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
> > inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
> >
> > AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
> > code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
>
> Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
> shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
> couldn't find).
>
> I _do_ have one question though:
>
> Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we

Depending on what you want and can do I can think of several solutions:
- add a quirk for this device (either at boot time, either in
hid-quirks.c) There must be one that tells to only bind to hidraw
- provide an out of the tree driver that declares the BUS:VID:PID, and
start the HID device with HIDRAW only.


> remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
> expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?

I am fine with the hid-microsoft changes, I just want them in a
separate commit. But I don't see why we would take only the first one
without the SPI transport and the hid-microsoft code...

Basically: not sure why you need hidraw for it.

Cheers,
Benjamin

>

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Dmitry Antipov]

Hello Benjamin,

First of all, apologies for the rookie mistakes in formatting and
bundling everything in one patch - this was my first patch sent to
the community. I will resend the series of patches once there is
agreement on what they should look like.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:47 AM Benjamin Tissoires
<benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> > and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> > for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> > addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> > itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
>
> Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
> commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
> inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
>
> AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
> code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
>
> Why is there a special need for us to take this one without the whole series?

This patch allows our spi-hid driver to function correctly as an out of
tree module. Prior to Android 12, OEMs were allowed to modify and build
their  own kernels, but that is changing with Google's GKI initiative.
For Android 12 we will need to use the signed image provided by Google,
and this patch is meant to prepare us for that.

If you are curious, here is a published (older) version of our spi-hid:
https://github.com/microsoft/surface-duo-oss-kernel.msm-4..14/tree/surfaceduo/10/2021.622.47/drivers/hid/spi-hid

We are working on finalizing the SPI HID spec and making it public, and
then preparing the transport driver for submission as a patch. The
reason for this first patch is to unblock our development work in the
meantime.

I see in a branch of this thread Felipe asked some questions seeing if
it is possible to get our device installed as hidraw without making
some of the code changes in this patch. I will follow that discussion,
test suggested approaches and will adjust the v2 of this patch
accordingly.

Thank you,
Dmitry

>
> Couple of additions to what Felipe said:
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/hid/hid-core.c      |  3 +++
> >  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h       |  2 ++
> >  drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> >  drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c    |  2 ++
> >  include/linux/hid.h         |  2 ++
> >  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > index 7db332139f7d..123a0e3a6b1a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > @@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
> >         case BUS_I2C:
> >                 bus = "I2C";
> >                 break;
> > +       case BUS_SPI:
> > +               bus = "SPI";
> > +               break;
>
> I'd like to have the SPI specific changes that are touching hid core
> in a separate patch, or with the SPI-HID transport layer.
>
> >         case BUS_VIRTUAL:
> >                 bus = "VIRTUAL";
> >                 break;
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> > index 8f1893e68112..5c181d23a7ae 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> > @@ -885,6 +885,8 @@
> >  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_XBOX_ONE_S_CONTROLLER 0x02fd
> >  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PIXART_MOUSE    0x00cb
> >  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS      0x02e0
> > +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0  0x0c1d
> > +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1  0x0c42
> >
> >  #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MOJO             0x8282
> >  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_RETRO_ADAPTER    0x3201
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> > index 071fd093a5f4..50ea1f68c285 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> > @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> >  #define MS_DUPLICATE_USAGES    BIT(5)
> >  #define MS_SURFACE_DIAL                BIT(6)
> >  #define MS_QUIRK_FF            BIT(7)
> > +#define MS_NOHIDINPUT          BIT(8)
> >
> >  struct ms_data {
> >         unsigned long quirks;
> > @@ -367,6 +368,7 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
> >         unsigned long quirks = id->driver_data;
> >         struct ms_data *ms;
> >         int ret;
> > +       unsigned int connect_mask;
> >
> >         ms = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*ms), GFP_KERNEL);
> >         if (ms == NULL)
> > @@ -376,20 +378,25 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
> >
> >         hid_set_drvdata(hdev, ms);
> >
> > +       connect_mask = HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> > +                       HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0);
> > +
> >         if (quirks & MS_NOGET)
> >                 hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_NOGET;
> >
> >         if (quirks & MS_SURFACE_DIAL)
> >                 hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP;
> >
> > +       if (quirks & MS_NOHIDINPUT)
> > +               connect_mask &= ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT;
> > +
> >         ret = hid_parse(hdev);
> >         if (ret) {
> >                 hid_err(hdev, "parse failed\n");
> >                 goto err_free;
> >         }
> >
> > -       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> > -                               HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0));
> > +       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, connect_mask);
> >         if (ret) {
> >                 hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n");
> >                 goto err_free;
> > @@ -450,6 +457,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id ms_devices[] = {
> >                 .driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
> >         { HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS),
> >                 .driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
> > +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0),
> > +               .driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
> > +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1),
> > +               .driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
> >         { }
> >  };
> >  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(hid, ms_devices);
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> > index 51b39bda9a9d..01609e5425b9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> > @@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_have_special_driver[] = {
> >         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_DIGITAL_MEDIA_3KV1) },
> >         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_POWER_COVER) },
> >         { HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PRESENTER_8K_BT) },
> > +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0) },
> > +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1) },
>
> This hunk should be dropped if it just works without. If it doesn't
> work without it, we probably need to fix why.
> So, yes, please drop these additions to hid-quirks :)
>
> >  #endif
> >  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HID_MONTEREY)
> >         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MONTEREY, USB_DEVICE_ID_GENIUS_KB29E) },
> > diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
> > index 9e067f937dbc..32823c6b65f6 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/hid.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/hid.h
> > @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ struct hid_descriptor {
> >         .bus = BUS_BLUETOOTH, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
> >  #define HID_I2C_DEVICE(ven, prod)                              \
> >         .bus = BUS_I2C, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
> > +#define HID_SPI_DEVICE(ven, prod)                              \
> > +       .bus = BUS_SPI, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
>
> That one should be separated and merged with the first hunk.
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
> >
> >  #define HID_REPORT_ID(rep) \
> >         .report_type = (rep)
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
>

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
>> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
>> >> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
>> >> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
>> >> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
>> >> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
>> >
>> > Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
>> > commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
>> > inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
>> >
>> > AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
>> > code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
>>
>> Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
>> shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
>> couldn't find).
>>
>> I _do_ have one question though:
>>
>> Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we
>
> Depending on what you want and can do I can think of several solutions:
> - add a quirk for this device (either at boot time, either in
> hid-quirks.c) There must be one that tells to only bind to hidraw
> - provide an out of the tree driver that declares the BUS:VID:PID, and
> start the HID device with HIDRAW only.

sounds good

>> remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
>> expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?
>
> I am fine with the hid-microsoft changes, I just want them in a
> separate commit. But I don't see why we would take only the first one
> without the SPI transport and the hid-microsoft code...
>
> Basically: not sure why you need hidraw for it.

Yeah, the touch controller is "peculiar". It sends to the host raw
frames which needs to be processed by a userspace application. We don't
get coordinates, pressure, etc. We get raw values from the touch
digitizer; these are passed to a daemon which runs your usual filters
(palm rejection, denoising, yada yada yada) and produces the actual
touch inputs. Those are, in turn, given to uinput.

-- 
balbi

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Benjamin Tissoires]

Hi Dmitry,

I made a second pass at this, and I have a few more comments.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c      |  3 +++
>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h       |  2 ++
>  drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c    |  2 ++
>  include/linux/hid.h         |  2 ++
>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> index 7db332139f7d..123a0e3a6b1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> @@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
>         case BUS_I2C:
>                 bus = "I2C";
>                 break;
> +       case BUS_SPI:
> +               bus = "SPI";
> +               break;
>         case BUS_VIRTUAL:
>                 bus = "VIRTUAL";
>                 break;
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> index 8f1893e68112..5c181d23a7ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
> @@ -885,6 +885,8 @@
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_XBOX_ONE_S_CONTROLLER 0x02fd
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PIXART_MOUSE    0x00cb
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS      0x02e0
> +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0  0x0c1d
> +#define SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1  0x0c42
>
>  #define USB_VENDOR_ID_MOJO             0x8282
>  #define USB_DEVICE_ID_RETRO_ADAPTER    0x3201
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> index 071fd093a5f4..50ea1f68c285 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #define MS_DUPLICATE_USAGES    BIT(5)
>  #define MS_SURFACE_DIAL                BIT(6)
>  #define MS_QUIRK_FF            BIT(7)
> +#define MS_NOHIDINPUT          BIT(8)
>
>  struct ms_data {
>         unsigned long quirks;
> @@ -367,6 +368,7 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>         unsigned long quirks = id->driver_data;
>         struct ms_data *ms;
>         int ret;
> +       unsigned int connect_mask;
>
>         ms = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*ms), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (ms == NULL)
> @@ -376,20 +378,25 @@ static int ms_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
>
>         hid_set_drvdata(hdev, ms);
>
> +       connect_mask = HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> +                       HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0);
> +
>         if (quirks & MS_NOGET)
>                 hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_NOGET;
>
>         if (quirks & MS_SURFACE_DIAL)
>                 hdev->quirks |= HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP;
>
> +       if (quirks & MS_NOHIDINPUT)
> +               connect_mask &= ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT;
> +
>         ret = hid_parse(hdev);
>         if (ret) {
>                 hid_err(hdev, "parse failed\n");
>                 goto err_free;
>         }
>
> -       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT | ((quirks & MS_HIDINPUT) ?
> -                               HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE : 0));
> +       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, connect_mask);

I think it would be clearer to group all connect_mask together, and
remove the '?' which hides a bit what we expect to have.

How about?:
---
+       connect_mask = HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT;
+       if (quirks & MS_HIDINPUT)
+              connect_mask |= HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT_FORCE;
+       if (quirks & MS_NOHIDINPUT)
+              connect_mask &= ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT;
+
+       ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, connect_mask);
---

Cheers,
Benjamin

>         if (ret) {
>                 hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n");
>                 goto err_free;
> @@ -450,6 +457,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id ms_devices[] = {
>                 .driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
>         { HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_8BITDO_SN30_PRO_PLUS),
>                 .driver_data = MS_QUIRK_FF },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0),
> +               .driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1),
> +               .driver_data = MS_NOHIDINPUT },
>         { }
>  };
>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(hid, ms_devices);
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> index 51b39bda9a9d..01609e5425b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c
> @@ -506,6 +506,8 @@ static const struct hid_device_id hid_have_special_driver[] = {
>         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_DIGITAL_MEDIA_3KV1) },
>         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_POWER_COVER) },
>         { HID_BLUETOOTH_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, USB_DEVICE_ID_MS_PRESENTER_8K_BT) },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_0) },
> +       { HID_SPI_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MICROSOFT, SPI_DEVICE_ID_MS_SURFACE_G6_1) },
>  #endif
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HID_MONTEREY)
>         { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_MONTEREY, USB_DEVICE_ID_GENIUS_KB29E) },
> diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
> index 9e067f937dbc..32823c6b65f6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hid.h
> @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ struct hid_descriptor {
>         .bus = BUS_BLUETOOTH, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
>  #define HID_I2C_DEVICE(ven, prod)                              \
>         .bus = BUS_I2C, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
> +#define HID_SPI_DEVICE(ven, prod)                              \
> +       .bus = BUS_SPI, .vendor = (ven), .product = (prod)
>
>  #define HID_REPORT_ID(rep) \
>         .report_type = (rep)
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 7:13 AM Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
> >> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> >> >> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> >> >> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> >> >> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> >> >> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
> >> >
> >> > Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
> >> > commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
> >> > inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
> >> >
> >> > AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
> >> > code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
> >>
> >> Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
> >> shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
> >> couldn't find).
> >>
> >> I _do_ have one question though:
> >>
> >> Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we
> >
> > Depending on what you want and can do I can think of several solutions:
> > - add a quirk for this device (either at boot time, either in
> > hid-quirks.c) There must be one that tells to only bind to hidraw
> > - provide an out of the tree driver that declares the BUS:VID:PID, and
> > start the HID device with HIDRAW only.
>
> sounds good

I did some more digging this morning.

The quirk option is not especially good, there is no "hidraw only" quirk.
However, there is a "HID_QUIRK_HAVE_SPECIAL_DRIVER" that prevents
hid-generic from binding to your device. This has the same effect as
adding the device in the hid-quirks.c in this submission, so for
development purposes, if the device is messed up by hid-generic, I
would advise to add this quirk (maybe from the development spi
transport driver as a temporary work around).

To have the device bound to hidraw only, then yes, if you provide a
simple out of the tree module that binds to this module, hid-generic
will release the device and let this out of the tree module deal with
it.

AFAICT, the hid-core changes you are asking here should not block the
development process if they are not merged. You'll get an "UNKOWN" bus
in the logs, and the SPI_HID_DEVICE macro can be defined in the out of
the tree driver.

>
> >> remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
> >> expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?
> >
> > I am fine with the hid-microsoft changes, I just want them in a
> > separate commit. But I don't see why we would take only the first one
> > without the SPI transport and the hid-microsoft code...
> >
> > Basically: not sure why you need hidraw for it.
>
> Yeah, the touch controller is "peculiar". It sends to the host raw
> frames which needs to be processed by a userspace application. We don't
> get coordinates, pressure, etc. We get raw values from the touch
> digitizer; these are passed to a daemon which runs your usual filters
> (palm rejection, denoising, yada yada yada) and produces the actual
> touch inputs. Those are, in turn, given to uinput.
>

In that case, maybe hidraw is not the best way to forward the events.

V4L has a capability to export raw touch events. You can have a look
at drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f54.c, drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c or
drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c for some examples.
The nice thing is you'll get parallel processing and DMA between the
kernel and userspace. Also, there must be userspace tools around that
are already capable of dealing with that kind of input. Though I also
understand the need to have your own sauce.

Cheers,
Benjamin

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
>> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
>> >> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
>> >> >> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
>> >> >> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
>> >> >> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
>> >> >> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
>> >> >
>> >> > Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
>> >> > commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
>> >> > inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
>> >> >
>> >> > AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
>> >> > code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
>> >>
>> >> Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
>> >> shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
>> >> couldn't find).
>> >>
>> >> I _do_ have one question though:
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we
>> >
>> > Depending on what you want and can do I can think of several solutions:
>> > - add a quirk for this device (either at boot time, either in
>> > hid-quirks.c) There must be one that tells to only bind to hidraw
>> > - provide an out of the tree driver that declares the BUS:VID:PID, and
>> > start the HID device with HIDRAW only.
>>
>> sounds good
>
> I did some more digging this morning.
>
> The quirk option is not especially good, there is no "hidraw only" quirk.
> However, there is a "HID_QUIRK_HAVE_SPECIAL_DRIVER" that prevents
> hid-generic from binding to your device. This has the same effect as
> adding the device in the hid-quirks.c in this submission, so for
> development purposes, if the device is messed up by hid-generic, I
> would advise to add this quirk (maybe from the development spi
> transport driver as a temporary work around).
>
> To have the device bound to hidraw only, then yes, if you provide a
> simple out of the tree module that binds to this module, hid-generic
> will release the device and let this out of the tree module deal with
> it.
>
> AFAICT, the hid-core changes you are asking here should not block the
> development process if they are not merged. You'll get an "UNKOWN" bus
> in the logs, and the SPI_HID_DEVICE macro can be defined in the out of
> the tree driver.

that's correct, indeed.

>> >> remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
>> >> expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?
>> >
>> > I am fine with the hid-microsoft changes, I just want them in a
>> > separate commit. But I don't see why we would take only the first one
>> > without the SPI transport and the hid-microsoft code...
>> >
>> > Basically: not sure why you need hidraw for it.
>>
>> Yeah, the touch controller is "peculiar". It sends to the host raw
>> frames which needs to be processed by a userspace application. We don't
>> get coordinates, pressure, etc. We get raw values from the touch
>> digitizer; these are passed to a daemon which runs your usual filters
>> (palm rejection, denoising, yada yada yada) and produces the actual
>> touch inputs. Those are, in turn, given to uinput.
>>
>
> In that case, maybe hidraw is not the best way to forward the events.
>
> V4L has a capability to export raw touch events. You can have a look
> at drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f54.c, drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c or
> drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c for some examples.
> The nice thing is you'll get parallel processing and DMA between the
> kernel and userspace. Also, there must be userspace tools around that
> are already capable of dealing with that kind of input. Though I also
> understand the need to have your own sauce.

Right, I saw those but I'm not sure it applies to spi-hid. OTOH, maybe
spi-hid is just a dumb transport and the V4L2 interface would be
implemented in a hid-microsoft-surface.c driver, or something.

Just to make things clear, the way spi-hid works is like shown
below. First the enumeration phase:

1. power on & reset deassert
2. device asserts interrupt
3. Linux sends ack
4. device responds with a header
5. Linux sends ack (containing body size)
6. device responds with Reset Response
7. Linux requests device descriptor
8. device asserts interrupts
9. Linux sends ack
11. device responds with header
12. Linux sends ack (with body size)
13. device responds with device descriptor

Then an actual transfer.

1. User touches the digitizer
2. device asserts interrupt
3. Linux sends ack
4. device responds with a header
5. Linux sends ack (containing body size)
6. device responds with Data packet (raw digitizer matrix read)

As you can see, there's no polling at a constant rate. Everything is
driven by the device's interrrupts. Also, this is a transport layer
meaning we can have a touch controller, or a keyboard, or a joystick, or
whatever HID device on top of this.

There are also some "hazards" allowed by the spec. For example, the
interrupt is edge triggered and the interrupt can be reasserted after
completion of the ACK prior to the body data portion. I.e., the
following is perfectly valid behavior (assuming rising edge IRQs):

        __                __     ____
IRQ  __/  \______________/  \___/    \_______

         ACK              ACK
MOSI __/XXXXX\__________/XXXXX\______________

                 header             body
MISO ___________/XXXXXX\_________/XXXXXXXX\__


There's also the possibility that the device can reset at any time. The
spec calls these "Device Initiated Reset". The idea for this is to cope
with e.g. such as static discharge causing the touch controller to
reset and so on.

These two little features make it rather hard to make sure that Linux
won't loose any interrupt events and still deal with the fact that the
device can reset at unexpected times. The way we've been dealing with
this in the past was to teardown and recreate the HID device from
scratch. This can result in race conditions between the IRQ handler and
a workqueue which offloads the work of recreating the device. There's a
possibility of race between kernel and userspace here.

Remember that we don't know, ahead of time, which device is attached to
the bus, we have to fetch the device descriptor to get VID/PID pair in
order to start the entire machinery.

I'm saying this because it's very likely that when we submit this driver
publicly (after cleaning it up a bit) we end up creating a bigger
discussion of how to support this new transport layer. We'll work
through the comments, of course, but at the same time we want to reduce
the amount of out-of-tree code we're keeping (for reasons which should
be obvious :-)

That being said, we'll have a look at the V4L2 interface for touch
devices and check how well it would fit for our touch controller :-)

cheers

-- 
balbi

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:16 AM Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
> >> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
> >> >> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
> >> >> >> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
> >> >> >> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
> >> >> >> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
> >> >> >> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
> >> >> > commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
> >> >> > inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
> >> >> >
> >> >> > AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
> >> >> > code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
> >> >>
> >> >> Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
> >> >> shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
> >> >> couldn't find).
> >> >>
> >> >> I _do_ have one question though:
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we
> >> >
> >> > Depending on what you want and can do I can think of several solutions:
> >> > - add a quirk for this device (either at boot time, either in
> >> > hid-quirks.c) There must be one that tells to only bind to hidraw
> >> > - provide an out of the tree driver that declares the BUS:VID:PID, and
> >> > start the HID device with HIDRAW only.
> >>
> >> sounds good
> >
> > I did some more digging this morning.
> >
> > The quirk option is not especially good, there is no "hidraw only" quirk.
> > However, there is a "HID_QUIRK_HAVE_SPECIAL_DRIVER" that prevents
> > hid-generic from binding to your device. This has the same effect as
> > adding the device in the hid-quirks.c in this submission, so for
> > development purposes, if the device is messed up by hid-generic, I
> > would advise to add this quirk (maybe from the development spi
> > transport driver as a temporary work around).
> >
> > To have the device bound to hidraw only, then yes, if you provide a
> > simple out of the tree module that binds to this module, hid-generic
> > will release the device and let this out of the tree module deal with
> > it.
> >
> > AFAICT, the hid-core changes you are asking here should not block the
> > development process if they are not merged. You'll get an "UNKOWN" bus
> > in the logs, and the SPI_HID_DEVICE macro can be defined in the out of
> > the tree driver.
>
> that's correct, indeed.
>
> >> >> remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
> >> >> expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?
> >> >
> >> > I am fine with the hid-microsoft changes, I just want them in a
> >> > separate commit. But I don't see why we would take only the first one
> >> > without the SPI transport and the hid-microsoft code...
> >> >
> >> > Basically: not sure why you need hidraw for it.
> >>
> >> Yeah, the touch controller is "peculiar". It sends to the host raw
> >> frames which needs to be processed by a userspace application. We don't
> >> get coordinates, pressure, etc. We get raw values from the touch
> >> digitizer; these are passed to a daemon which runs your usual filters
> >> (palm rejection, denoising, yada yada yada) and produces the actual
> >> touch inputs. Those are, in turn, given to uinput.
> >>
> >
> > In that case, maybe hidraw is not the best way to forward the events.
> >
> > V4L has a capability to export raw touch events. You can have a look
> > at drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f54.c, drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c or
> > drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c for some examples.
> > The nice thing is you'll get parallel processing and DMA between the
> > kernel and userspace. Also, there must be userspace tools around that
> > are already capable of dealing with that kind of input. Though I also
> > understand the need to have your own sauce.
>
> Right, I saw those but I'm not sure it applies to spi-hid. OTOH, maybe
> spi-hid is just a dumb transport and the V4L2 interface would be
> implemented in a hid-microsoft-surface.c driver, or something.

Right. I think you said it all there: spi-hid is the transport layer,
then all per-device logic/behaviour needs to be in the hid driver :)
So V4L2 should go into hid-microsoft.c (or another one if that makes
it too hard to melt the 2 together).

>
> Just to make things clear, the way spi-hid works is like shown
> below. First the enumeration phase:
>
> 1. power on & reset deassert
> 2. device asserts interrupt
> 3. Linux sends ack
> 4. device responds with a header
> 5. Linux sends ack (containing body size)
> 6. device responds with Reset Response
> 7. Linux requests device descriptor
> 8. device asserts interrupts
> 9. Linux sends ack
> 11. device responds with header
> 12. Linux sends ack (with body size)
> 13. device responds with device descriptor
>
> Then an actual transfer.
>
> 1. User touches the digitizer
> 2. device asserts interrupt
> 3. Linux sends ack
> 4. device responds with a header
> 5. Linux sends ack (containing body size)
> 6. device responds with Data packet (raw digitizer matrix read)
>
> As you can see, there's no polling at a constant rate. Everything is
> driven by the device's interrrupts. Also, this is a transport layer
> meaning we can have a touch controller, or a keyboard, or a joystick, or
> whatever HID device on top of this.

Yes, this is pretty much like i2c-hid.

>
> There are also some "hazards" allowed by the spec. For example, the
> interrupt is edge triggered and the interrupt can be reasserted after
> completion of the ACK prior to the body data portion. I.e., the
> following is perfectly valid behavior (assuming rising edge IRQs):
>
>         __                __     ____
> IRQ  __/  \______________/  \___/    \_______
>
>          ACK              ACK
> MOSI __/XXXXX\__________/XXXXX\______________
>
>                  header             body
> MISO ___________/XXXXXX\_________/XXXXXXXX\__
>
>
> There's also the possibility that the device can reset at any time. The
> spec calls these "Device Initiated Reset". The idea for this is to cope
> with e.g. such as static discharge causing the touch controller to
> reset and so on.
>
> These two little features make it rather hard to make sure that Linux
> won't loose any interrupt events and still deal with the fact that the
> device can reset at unexpected times. The way we've been dealing with
> this in the past was to teardown and recreate the HID device from
> scratch. This can result in race conditions between the IRQ handler and
> a workqueue which offloads the work of recreating the device. There's a
> possibility of race between kernel and userspace here.

Indeed, this is not ideal.
IIRC, i2c-hid also has to cope with device initiated resets, but I am
not sure I have seen them in real life. So I think we just paper over
it :(

>
> Remember that we don't know, ahead of time, which device is attached to
> the bus, we have to fetch the device descriptor to get VID/PID pair in
> order to start the entire machinery.

Yep, this is exactly what we have for I2C, USB and Bluetooth.

>
> I'm saying this because it's very likely that when we submit this driver
> publicly (after cleaning it up a bit) we end up creating a bigger
> discussion of how to support this new transport layer. We'll work
> through the comments, of course, but at the same time we want to reduce
> the amount of out-of-tree code we're keeping (for reasons which should
> be obvious :-)

Yeah, no worries. But again, spi-hid should just bring up the device
and forward the events.
Adding a mechanism to ensure the IRQs are not lost is probably its
responsibility, but deciding what to do in case of a device initiated
reset is not.
It should forward that information to HID core (maybe by adding a new
API in hid-core and in hid_drivers), and what needs to be done is
decided by the leaf driver (hid-microsoft).

I bet hid-generic doesn't care, but hid-microsoft (or hid-multitouch)
will. It will then be up to this driver to decide what to do.

Unfortunately, unless you work on i2c-hid to detect device initiated
resets we won't be able to accept a new HID API without users :(
However, nothing prevents you from the out-of-the-tree driver to add a
hook to hid-microsoft to directly call some internal API (but that
would not be upstreamable, of course).

>
> That being said, we'll have a look at the V4L2 interface for touch
> devices and check how well it would fit for our touch controller :-)

Thanks! The one thing I am not entirely sure is if V4L2 requires
polling. But with DMA, there is a chance we can just update the
buffers as the interrupts come in and let the V4L2 userspace client do
a regular polling (sorry, don't know enough of that area).

One last thing: please note that there is a HID test-suite at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/hid-tools. Ideally, any change
in hid-core should have a matching test added there.
The test suite is using uhid, so that also means that you are welcome
to add surface tests there too (though there is no V4L2 support yet),
but beware that hid-microsoft should be entirely relying on HID for
communication and should not directly talk to SPI/USB/I2C because we
don't have those transport layers when emulating devices.

BTW, there is something I always wanted to use in HID but never found
a good implementation: eBPF. If V4L2 doesn't work with your needs, I
wonder if you could not get the raw events through BPF in your
userspace code. There is a chance you'll get a faster transfer rate
than using hidraw. Maybe.

Cheers,
Benjamin

>
> cheers
>
> --
> balbi
>

Re: [PATCH] HID: Support Microsoft Surface Duo SPI-based touch controller driver as a module.

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
>> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
>> >> Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> writes:
>> >> >> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:13 AM Dmitry Antipov <daantipov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Surface Duo uses a touch digitizer that communicates to the main SoC via SPI
>> >> >> >> and presents itself as a HID device. This patch contains the changes needed
>> >> >> >> for the driver to work as a module: HID Core affordances for SPI devices,
>> >> >> >> addition of the new Device IDs, and a new quirk in hid-microsoft. The driver
>> >> >> >> itself is being prepared for a submission in the near future.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov dmanti@microsoft.com
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Though I really appreciate seeing a microsoft.com submission, the
>> >> >> > commit description makes me wonder if we should not postpone the
>> >> >> > inclusion of this patch with the "submission in the near future".
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > AFAIK, HID is not SPI aware. So basically, we are introducing dead
>> >> >> > code in the upstream kernel if we take this patch.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Right, unfortunately spec isn't public yet (albeit having products
>> >> >> shipped using it and a driver available in a public tree somewhere I
>> >> >> couldn't find).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I _do_ have one question though:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is there a way to tell hid core that $this device wants hidraw? If we
>> >> >
>> >> > Depending on what you want and can do I can think of several solutions:
>> >> > - add a quirk for this device (either at boot time, either in
>> >> > hid-quirks.c) There must be one that tells to only bind to hidraw
>> >> > - provide an out of the tree driver that declares the BUS:VID:PID, and
>> >> > start the HID device with HIDRAW only.
>> >>
>> >> sounds good
>> >
>> > I did some more digging this morning.
>> >
>> > The quirk option is not especially good, there is no "hidraw only" quirk.
>> > However, there is a "HID_QUIRK_HAVE_SPECIAL_DRIVER" that prevents
>> > hid-generic from binding to your device. This has the same effect as
>> > adding the device in the hid-quirks.c in this submission, so for
>> > development purposes, if the device is messed up by hid-generic, I
>> > would advise to add this quirk (maybe from the development spi
>> > transport driver as a temporary work around).
>> >
>> > To have the device bound to hidraw only, then yes, if you provide a
>> > simple out of the tree module that binds to this module, hid-generic
>> > will release the device and let this out of the tree module deal with
>> > it.
>> >
>> > AFAICT, the hid-core changes you are asking here should not block the
>> > development process if they are not merged. You'll get an "UNKOWN" bus
>> > in the logs, and the SPI_HID_DEVICE macro can be defined in the out of
>> > the tree driver.
>>
>> that's correct, indeed.
>>
>> >> >> remove the hid-microsoft changes, hid-generic will pick the device as
>> >> >> expected, but this really needs hidraw. Any hints?
>> >> >
>> >> > I am fine with the hid-microsoft changes, I just want them in a
>> >> > separate commit. But I don't see why we would take only the first one
>> >> > without the SPI transport and the hid-microsoft code...
>> >> >
>> >> > Basically: not sure why you need hidraw for it.
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, the touch controller is "peculiar". It sends to the host raw
>> >> frames which needs to be processed by a userspace application. We don't
>> >> get coordinates, pressure, etc. We get raw values from the touch
>> >> digitizer; these are passed to a daemon which runs your usual filters
>> >> (palm rejection, denoising, yada yada yada) and produces the actual
>> >> touch inputs. Those are, in turn, given to uinput.
>> >>
>> >
>> > In that case, maybe hidraw is not the best way to forward the events.
>> >
>> > V4L has a capability to export raw touch events. You can have a look
>> > at drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f54.c, drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c or
>> > drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c for some examples.
>> > The nice thing is you'll get parallel processing and DMA between the
>> > kernel and userspace. Also, there must be userspace tools around that
>> > are already capable of dealing with that kind of input. Though I also
>> > understand the need to have your own sauce.
>>
>> Right, I saw those but I'm not sure it applies to spi-hid. OTOH, maybe
>> spi-hid is just a dumb transport and the V4L2 interface would be
>> implemented in a hid-microsoft-surface.c driver, or something.
>
> Right. I think you said it all there: spi-hid is the transport layer,
> then all per-device logic/behaviour needs to be in the hid driver :)
> So V4L2 should go into hid-microsoft.c (or another one if that makes
> it too hard to melt the 2 together).

makes sense to me, thanks :-)

>> Just to make things clear, the way spi-hid works is like shown
>> below. First the enumeration phase:
>>
>> 1. power on & reset deassert
>> 2. device asserts interrupt
>> 3. Linux sends ack
>> 4. device responds with a header
>> 5. Linux sends ack (containing body size)
>> 6. device responds with Reset Response
>> 7. Linux requests device descriptor
>> 8. device asserts interrupts
>> 9. Linux sends ack
>> 11. device responds with header
>> 12. Linux sends ack (with body size)
>> 13. device responds with device descriptor
>>
>> Then an actual transfer.
>>
>> 1. User touches the digitizer
>> 2. device asserts interrupt
>> 3. Linux sends ack
>> 4. device responds with a header
>> 5. Linux sends ack (containing body size)
>> 6. device responds with Data packet (raw digitizer matrix read)
>>
>> As you can see, there's no polling at a constant rate. Everything is
>> driven by the device's interrrupts. Also, this is a transport layer
>> meaning we can have a touch controller, or a keyboard, or a joystick, or
>> whatever HID device on top of this.
>
> Yes, this is pretty much like i2c-hid.

true, I think i2c-hid doesn't require the IRQ for enumeration, though.

>> There are also some "hazards" allowed by the spec. For example, the
>> interrupt is edge triggered and the interrupt can be reasserted after
>> completion of the ACK prior to the body data portion. I.e., the
>> following is perfectly valid behavior (assuming rising edge IRQs):
>>
>>         __                __     ____
>> IRQ  __/  \______________/  \___/    \_______
>>
>>          ACK              ACK
>> MOSI __/XXXXX\__________/XXXXX\______________
>>
>>                  header             body
>> MISO ___________/XXXXXX\_________/XXXXXXXX\__
>>
>>
>> There's also the possibility that the device can reset at any time. The
>> spec calls these "Device Initiated Reset". The idea for this is to cope
>> with e.g. such as static discharge causing the touch controller to
>> reset and so on.
>>
>> These two little features make it rather hard to make sure that Linux
>> won't loose any interrupt events and still deal with the fact that the
>> device can reset at unexpected times. The way we've been dealing with
>> this in the past was to teardown and recreate the HID device from
>> scratch. This can result in race conditions between the IRQ handler and
>> a workqueue which offloads the work of recreating the device. There's a
>> possibility of race between kernel and userspace here.
>
> Indeed, this is not ideal.
> IIRC, i2c-hid also has to cope with device initiated resets, but I am
> not sure I have seen them in real life. So I think we just paper over
> it :(

yeah, the thing is that it _can_ happen :-) Imagine the user has some
considerable static charge (somewhat common during winter months, at
least) when they touch the screen they could discharge enough
electricity to cause a reset in the touch controller (sure, it's also a
function of HW design, but there's always a limit to protection
circuitry).

>> Remember that we don't know, ahead of time, which device is attached to
>> the bus, we have to fetch the device descriptor to get VID/PID pair in
>> order to start the entire machinery.
>
> Yep, this is exactly what we have for I2C, USB and Bluetooth.

Right

>> I'm saying this because it's very likely that when we submit this driver
>> publicly (after cleaning it up a bit) we end up creating a bigger
>> discussion of how to support this new transport layer. We'll work
>> through the comments, of course, but at the same time we want to reduce
>> the amount of out-of-tree code we're keeping (for reasons which should
>> be obvious :-)
>
> Yeah, no worries. But again, spi-hid should just bring up the device
> and forward the events.
> Adding a mechanism to ensure the IRQs are not lost is probably its
> responsibility, but deciding what to do in case of a device initiated
> reset is not.

I think this the key information that we "missed". We ended up trying to
treat the reset inside spi-hid and it's, well, hard :-)

> It should forward that information to HID core (maybe by adding a new
> API in hid-core and in hid_drivers), and what needs to be done is
> decided by the leaf driver (hid-microsoft).

fair enough. A device initiated reset will cause reenumeration,
btw. Shouldn't we just destroy the hid device?

> I bet hid-generic doesn't care, but hid-microsoft (or hid-multitouch)
> will. It will then be up to this driver to decide what to do.
>
> Unfortunately, unless you work on i2c-hid to detect device initiated
> resets we won't be able to accept a new HID API without users :(
> However, nothing prevents you from the out-of-the-tree driver to add a
> hook to hid-microsoft to directly call some internal API (but that
> would not be upstreamable, of course).

right, we're probably start working with what we have today.

>> That being said, we'll have a look at the V4L2 interface for touch
>> devices and check how well it would fit for our touch controller :-)
>
> Thanks! The one thing I am not entirely sure is if V4L2 requires
> polling. But with DMA, there is a chance we can just update the
> buffers as the interrupts come in and let the V4L2 userspace client do
> a regular polling (sorry, don't know enough of that area).

hmm, that may create problems. Because the touch controller is
forwarding raw buffers, the reports can get pretty big. IIRC, our
maximum input report size is 8kiB. If we assume 60Hz frequency on
digitizer sampling, that's 480kiB/sec of data (max).

> One last thing: please note that there is a HID test-suite at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/hid-tools. Ideally, any change
> in hid-core should have a matching test added there.
> The test suite is using uhid, so that also means that you are welcome
> to add surface tests there too (though there is no V4L2 support yet),
> but beware that hid-microsoft should be entirely relying on HID for
> communication and should not directly talk to SPI/USB/I2C because we
> don't have those transport layers when emulating devices.

nice, that's cool and will be helpful :-)

> BTW, there is something I always wanted to use in HID but never found
> a good implementation: eBPF. If V4L2 doesn't work with your needs, I
> wonder if you could not get the raw events through BPF in your
> userspace code. There is a chance you'll get a faster transfer rate
> than using hidraw. Maybe.

sounds fun, indeed. Need to check on availability of eBPF in the
downstream kernels.

-- 
balbi