HID: make it possible to force hid-core claim the device

Introduce 'hid_ignore_special_drivers' module parameter that makes hid-core
claim the device even if it's listed in hid_have_special_driver[]. This
is useful mostly for debugging purposes and specialized initrds, where
all the hid drivers are not avaiable.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index d76d85a41629..fbecdd3e7cd3 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *  Copyright (c) 1999 Andreas Gal
  *  Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
  *  Copyright (c) 2005 Michael Haboustak <mike-@cinci.rr.com> for Concept2, Inc
- *  Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Jiri Kosina
+ *  Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Jiri Kosina
  */
 
 /*
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ module_param_named(debug, hid_debug, int, 0600);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "toggle HID debugging messages");
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hid_debug);
 
+static int hid_ignore_special_drivers = 0;
+module_param_named(ignore_special_drivers, hid_ignore_special_drivers, int, 0600);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Ignore any special drivers and handle all devices by generic driver");
+
 /*
  * Register a new report for a device.
  */
@@ -1678,7 +1682,7 @@ static int hid_bus_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
                 return 0;
 
         /* generic wants all that don't have specialized driver */
-        if (!strncmp(hdrv->name, "generic-", 8))
+        if (!strncmp(hdrv->name, "generic-", 8) && !hid_ignore_special_drivers)
                 return !hid_match_id(hdev, hid_have_special_driver);
 
         return 1;