[PATCH v5 4/6] Documentation: Correction in HID output_report callback description.

Jarrett Schultz jaschultzms at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 09:59:00 PDT 2022


From: Jarrett Schultz <jaschultz at microsoft.com>

Originally output_report callback was described as must-be asynchronous,
but that is not the case in some implementations, namely i2c-hid.
Correct the documentation to say that it may be asynchronous.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmanti at microsoft.com>
---
 Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst b/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst
index 6f1692da296c..2008cf432af1 100644
--- a/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hid/hid-transport.rst
@@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ The available HID callbacks are:
 
    Send raw output report via intr channel. Used by some HID device drivers
    which require high throughput for outgoing requests on the intr channel. This
-   must not cause SET_REPORT calls! This must be implemented as asynchronous
-   output report on the intr channel!
+   must not cause SET_REPORT calls! This call might be asynchronous, so the
+   caller should not expect an immediate response!
 
    ::
 
-- 
2.25.1




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