On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:17:49AM +0100, Bj|rn Augustsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Here's a small patch against 2.4.18pre3 that

You should copy the maintainer of the HID code too.  He needs to aprove
it.

> * Changes the type of unit_exponent to be signed in a few places
>   (Including possibly userspace-visible header files. 
>   (hiddev.hi, hid.h)

This looks good.  The hid*.h files aren't userspace visible.  And
everyone knows you shouldn't use kernel header files in userspace
programs :)

> * Adds prettyprinting of Unit Items in reports.

This looks nice for people trying to debug HID devices.

> The guys on #kernelnewbie thought I was nuts for trying to printk that
> much data, and suggested using a /proc file instead. What do I do?

I think the hiddebug program (or some such thing) can already do all of
this from userspace.  But I don't remember right now.

thanks,

greg k-h

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