This unique identifier is currently used only for ensuring uniqueness in sysfs. However, this could be handful for userspace to refer to a specific hid_device by this id.
2 use cases are in my mind: LEDs (and their naming convention), and HID-BPF.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com
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no changes in v10
no changes in v9
no changes in v8
no changes in v7
no changes in v6
new in v5 --- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 4 +++- include/linux/hid.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c index b7f5566e338d..a00dd43db8bf 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -2739,10 +2739,12 @@ int hid_add_device(struct hid_device *hdev) hid_warn(hdev, "bad device descriptor (%d)\n", ret); }
+ hdev->id = atomic_inc_return(&id); + /* XXX hack, any other cleaner solution after the driver core * is converted to allow more than 20 bytes as the device name? */ dev_set_name(&hdev->dev, "%04X:%04X:%04X.%04X", hdev->bus, - hdev->vendor, hdev->product, atomic_inc_return(&id)); + hdev->vendor, hdev->product, hdev->id);
hid_debug_register(hdev, dev_name(&hdev->dev)); ret = device_add(&hdev->dev); diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h index 4363a63b9775..a43dd17bc78f 100644 --- a/include/linux/hid.h +++ b/include/linux/hid.h @@ -658,6 +658,8 @@ struct hid_device { /* device report descriptor */ struct list_head debug_list; spinlock_t debug_list_lock; wait_queue_head_t debug_wait; + + unsigned int id; /* system unique id */ };
#define to_hid_device(pdev) \