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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] WIP: add usb keyboard driver
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:21:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150910172111.GR18700@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150910185133.7a11e8f0@berta>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 06:51:33PM +0300, Peter Mamonov wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:38:15 +0200
> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > Excellent! This makes the framebuffer console support complete :)
> 
> I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but this implementation of the usb
> keyboard driver seems to be wrong. The driver employs the get_report
> request to poll the keyboard state via the control endpoint, however
> the "Device Class Definition for Human Interface Devices (HID)" states
> the following:
> "This request is not intended to be used for polling the device state
> on a regular basis. [...] The Interrupt In pipe should be used for
> recurring Input reports."
> 
> I guess this is the source of the problems with some keyboards: 2 of 4
> keyboards I've tested changed their state only on key down, but not
> on key up.

Yes, same here. The first keyboard I tested ended up with this
behaviour, the second worked.

> 
> So, according the standard, we need to poll a keyboard via interrupt
> endpoint. However, current implementation of EHCI driver doesn't support
> interrupt transactions: submit_int_msg() in ehci-hcd.c is a stub. I'll
> try to implement it.

U-Boot has an implementation for it, should be possible to adopt the
corresponding code.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-09 16:36 Peter Mamonov
2015-09-10  7:38 ` Sascha Hauer
2015-09-10 15:51   ` Peter Mamonov
2015-09-10 17:21     ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-09-11 14:56       ` Peter Mamonov

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