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Message ID 20141116181846.GA31516@abrij.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Delegated to: Jiri Kosina
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bri Nov. 16, 2014, 6:18 p.m. UTC
Add some sysfs interfaces to cover some corner use cases when provisioning:

1) Allow read access to the IDA index through device/gamepad_number.  The
IDA index is used to identify the device to the user as the "controller number"
and is reflected via the initial LED states when plugged in.  This sysfs
attribute could be used by userspace for a more seamless transition to
userspace drivers without controller numbers changing.  Write access is not
addressed as it raises the issue of a global IDA that works across different
gamepad drivers.  Internally, remove the use of the term "device_id" for
the gamepad number for code grepability purposes.

2) Allow manual provisioning of the Sixaxis/Dualshock3 USB "pairing" process
through device/master_bdaddr.  The bluez plugin has removed the need for
sixpair.c or other such utilities for the common use case of autoprovisioning.
Under less usual situations, the bluez behavior may not be desired, e.g.
if you need to pair a gamepad with a different machine, see what machine
a pad is paired to, or restore old pairings after use.  This removes
the need to use sixpair.c or roll-your-own libusb code for that sort
of thing.

Signed-off-by: Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>
Tested-by: Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>

---

I've tested with both SixAxis and Dualshock 3 on stock Debian kernel 3.16.5.
I've also tested a copy of the 3.18 git version inserted into the 3.16.5
kernel.  The patch should apply to both (with fuzz on the newer version.)
Tests are still needed on pure 3.18.

I do not have access to the non-Sony pads handled by this driver, but did
test the with a Dualshock4 to ensure that the sysfs files are harmless
vestigials for such devices.

It has been a long time since I popped the hood on the kernel and much
has changed.  I'm unclear as to under what conditions hid-core relieves
the need to lock.  Some review is definitely needed there.

General comment on the driver: when a gamepad being used over
BT is plugged back in to USB, it continues to use BT rather than
switching to USB.  This has both benefits and disadvantages.

On the bright side, this prevents the evdev and js devices from being
destroyed and recreated.  Some applications, many closed-source, may
not respond well to that even when udev rules are used to pin the
device names.

On the other hand this is not the behavior gamers expect and will not
help matters if the reason for plugging the pad in was to decrease
latency due to RF contention.

I notice that sysfs-rules.txt mentions that a device's parentage in
the tree may change, and teaching the hid core to allow graceful
takeover of a device by a different host/bus driver for these
devices might be a use case for that.

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Antonio Ospite Nov. 17, 2014, 12:35 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:18:46 -0500
bri <bri@abrij.org> wrote:

Hi Brian,

> Add some sysfs interfaces to cover some corner use cases when provisioning:
> 
> 1) Allow read access to the IDA index through device/gamepad_number.  The
> IDA index is used to identify the device to the user as the "controller number"
> and is reflected via the initial LED states when plugged in.  This sysfs
> attribute could be used by userspace for a more seamless transition to
> userspace drivers without controller numbers changing.  Write access is not
> addressed as it raises the issue of a global IDA that works across different
> gamepad drivers.  Internally, remove the use of the term "device_id" for
> the gamepad number for code grepability purposes.
>

I am not sure about this, Frank can better comment on it.

From how I always saw it, the IDA for sixaxis controller may be useful
in a scenario when you _only_ have Sixaxis controllers, but if you have
hooked up controllers relying on different drivers, then using the
joystick device numbers instead (i.e. the X in /dev/input/jsX) as
identifier is more reliable IMHO, so that's how the BlueZ sixaxis
plugin sets the LEDs, see:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/plugins/sixaxis.c

Imagine:
 1. plug in a sixaxis (IDA = 0, /dev/input/js0)
 2. plug in another joypad (/dev/input/js1)
 3. plug in a second sixaxis (IDA = 1, /dev/input/js2)

> 2) Allow manual provisioning of the Sixaxis/Dualshock3 USB "pairing" process
> through device/master_bdaddr.  The bluez plugin has removed the need for
> sixpair.c or other such utilities for the common use case of autoprovisioning.
> Under less usual situations, the bluez behavior may not be desired, e.g.
> if you need to pair a gamepad with a different machine, see what machine
> a pad is paired to, or restore old pairings after use.  This removes
> the need to use sixpair.c or roll-your-own libusb code for that sort
> of thing.
>

I had tried doing something similar in the past (the parsing was just a
sscanf): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/5261 but then
we deliberately decided against exposing specific sysfs interfaces for
device/master_bdaddr, you can just use generic HID feature reports from
userspace to get/set these, write a simple program reusing the code in
the BlueZ sixaxis plugin, using the ioclts
HIDIOCGFEATURE/HIDIOCSFEATURE, this way you don't depend on libusb. As
an historical note, the BlueZ sixaxis plugin was one of the first user
of these ioctls.

It's true that you still need some code, but when possible it's better
to have code for corner cases in userspace rather than in the kernel.

A more general note, when submitting kernel patches try to send one
patch per logical change, in this case I would have expected several
patches, one for the rename device_id/gamepad_number, one for the IDA
sysfs hook and one for the bdaddrs sysfs hooks. Self contained patches
are easier to review.

I'd also try to avoid custom parsing routines in kernel code as much as
possible.

That said I still don't think the changes you are proposing are strictly
necessary in the kernel driver, but let's see what the others have to
say about that.

Misc comments inlined below.

Thanks,
   Antonio

> Signed-off-by: Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>
> Tested-by: Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> I've tested with both SixAxis and Dualshock 3 on stock Debian kernel 3.16.5.
> I've also tested a copy of the 3.18 git version inserted into the 3.16.5
> kernel.  The patch should apply to both (with fuzz on the newer version.)
> Tests are still needed on pure 3.18.
>

You know you can build Debian packages from the official git kernel
repository, don't you?
	make LOCALVERSION=-brian INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 deb-pkg

When sending kernel patches try to base them on the master branch from
the linus tree:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/

> I do not have access to the non-Sony pads handled by this driver, but did
> test the with a Dualshock4 to ensure that the sysfs files are harmless
> vestigials for such devices.
> 
> It has been a long time since I popped the hood on the kernel and much
> has changed.  I'm unclear as to under what conditions hid-core relieves
> the need to lock.  Some review is definitely needed there.
> 
> General comment on the driver: when a gamepad being used over
> BT is plugged back in to USB, it continues to use BT rather than
> switching to USB.  This has both benefits and disadvantages.
> 
> On the bright side, this prevents the evdev and js devices from being
> destroyed and recreated.  Some applications, many closed-source, may
> not respond well to that even when udev rules are used to pin the
> device names.
>

Exactly.

> On the other hand this is not the behavior gamers expect and will not
> help matters if the reason for plugging the pad in was to decrease
> latency due to RF contention.

This is an interesting point, can you show numbers about these latency
problems?

> I notice that sysfs-rules.txt mentions that a device's parentage in
> the tree may change, and teaching the hid core to allow graceful
> takeover of a device by a different host/bus driver for these
> devices might be a use case for that.
> 
> --- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c.orig	2014-11-05 20:32:47.387599486 -0500
> +++ drivers/hid/hid-sony.c	2014-11-14 20:35:28.327053036 -0500
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>   *  Copyright (c) 2012 David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
>   *  Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Jiri Kosina
>   *  Copyright (c) 2013 Colin Leitner <colin.leitner@gmail.com>
> + *  Copyright (c) 2014 Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>
>   */
>  
>  /*
> @@ -35,6 +36,9 @@
>  #include <linux/list.h>
>  #include <linux/idr.h>
>  #include <linux/input/mt.h>
> +#include <linux/ctype.h>
> +#include <net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h>
> +#include <net/bluetooth/hci_core.h>

A HID driver should not need to depend on bluetooth, no other HID
driver does. Layer violations should be avoided as much as possible.

>  #include "hid-ids.h"
>  
> @@ -750,7 +754,7 @@ union sixaxis_output_report_01 {
>  
>  static spinlock_t sony_dev_list_lock;
>  static LIST_HEAD(sony_device_list);
> -static DEFINE_IDA(sony_device_id_allocator);
> +static DEFINE_IDA(sony_gamepad_number_allocator);
>  
>  struct sony_sc {
>  	spinlock_t lock;
> @@ -760,7 +764,7 @@ struct sony_sc {
>  	unsigned long quirks;
>  	struct work_struct state_worker;
>  	struct power_supply battery;
> -	int device_id;
> +	int gamepad_number;

As I tried to explain above, the value of this variable won't
corresponds to the "gamepad number" if you have a mixed driver scenario.

>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SONY_FF
>  	__u8 left;
> @@ -1321,7 +1325,8 @@ static int sony_leds_init(struct sony_sc
>  		if (!hid_validate_values(hdev, HID_OUTPUT_REPORT, 0, 0, 7))
>  			return -ENODEV;
>  	} else if (sc->quirks & DUALSHOCK4_CONTROLLER) {
> -		dualshock4_set_leds_from_id(sc->device_id, initial_values);
> +		dualshock4_set_leds_from_id(sc->gamepad_number,
> +					    initial_values);
>  		initial_values[3] = 1;
>  		sc->led_count = 4;
>  		memset(max_brightness, 255, 3);
> @@ -1330,7 +1335,7 @@ static int sony_leds_init(struct sony_sc
>  		name_len = 0;
>  		name_fmt = "%s:%s";
>  	} else {
> -		sixaxis_set_leds_from_id(sc->device_id, initial_values);
> +		sixaxis_set_leds_from_id(sc->gamepad_number, initial_values);
>  		sc->led_count = 4;
>  		memset(use_hw_blink, 1, 4);
>  		use_ds4_names = 0;
> @@ -1758,38 +1763,209 @@ static int sony_check_add(struct sony_sc
>  	return sony_check_add_dev_list(sc);
>  }
>  
> -static int sony_set_device_id(struct sony_sc *sc)
> +/* PS3 pads do not pair over bluetooth; Instead a USB handshake is used. */
> +static ssize_t sony_master_bdaddr_show(struct device *dev,
> +				       struct device_attribute *attr,
> +				       char *buf)
> +{
> +	struct hid_device *hdev = container_of(dev, struct hid_device, dev);
> +	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
> +	size_t count;
> +	unsigned char msg[8];
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!sc) {
> +		hid_err(hdev, "No device data\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_BT) {
> +		struct device *parent;
> +
> +		parent = dev->parent;
> +		if (!parent)
> +			return 0;
> +		parent = parent->parent;
> +		if (!parent || !parent->type
> +		    || strcmp(parent->type->name, "host"))
> +			return 0;
> +
> +		count = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%pMR\n",
> +				  &(to_hci_dev(parent)->bdaddr));
> +		return count;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!(sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	ret = hid_hw_raw_request(hdev, 0xf5, msg, sizeof(msg),
> +				 HID_FEATURE_REPORT, HID_REQ_GET_REPORT);
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		/* This matches bluez error message */
> +		hid_err(hdev, "failed to read master address\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	count = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%pM\n", msg + 2);
> +	return count;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * This could probably be useful in lib/.
> + *
> + * Convert a string to a MAC address, accepting multiple formats.
> + *
> + * Will take most commonly cut-and-pasted formats without being too liberal.
> + * Accepts any hex with delims [-:.] between any octets, no mixing delims,
> + * no splitting octets.
> + *
> + * *buf should have at least 6 bytes of space and will not be altered on fail
> + * Will halt at null terminator or before reading more than lim chars from *c
> + * Return code is sscanf-style: number of non-null bytes read, or 0 on failure
> + */
> +static int sony_kstrntomac(const char *c, u8 *buf, size_t lim)
> +{
> +	int cnt = 0;
> +	int dcnt = 0;
> +	char delim = '\0';
> +	u8 octet[6];
> +
> +	while (cnt < 6) {
> +		if (lim < 2 || !isxdigit(*c) || !isxdigit(*(c+1)))
> +			return 0;
> +
> +		lim -= 2;
> +
> +		if (isdigit(*c))
> +			octet[cnt] = (*c - '0') << 4;
> +		else
> +			octet[cnt] = (tolower(*c) - 'a' + 10) << 4;
> +		c++;
> +
> +		if (isdigit(*c))
> +			octet[cnt] |= *c - '0';
> +		else
> +			octet[cnt] |= tolower(*c) - 'a' + 10;
> +		c++;
> +
> +		if (cnt < 5) {
> +			if (!lim)
> +				return 0;
> +			if (!delim && (*c == '-' || *c == ':' || *c == '.'))
> +				delim = *c;
> +			if (delim && *c == delim) {
> +				dcnt++;
> +				c++;
> +				lim--;
> +			}
> +		}
> +		cnt++;
> +	}
> +
> +	memcpy(buf, octet, 6);
> +
> +	return cnt * 2 + dcnt;
> +}
> +
> +static ssize_t sony_master_bdaddr_store(struct device *dev,
> +					struct device_attribute *attr,
> +					const char *buf, size_t count)
> +{
> +	struct hid_device *hdev = container_of(dev, struct hid_device, dev);
> +	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
> +	u8 msg[8];
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!sc) {
> +		hid_err(hdev, "No device data\n");
> +		return -EBADFD;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!(sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB)) {
> +		if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_BT) {
> +			hid_err(hdev,
> +				"To set master disconnect BT then use USB\n");
> +			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +		}
> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
> +	}
> +
> +	msg[0] = 0x01;
> +	msg[1] = 0x00;
> +
> +	if (!sony_kstrntomac(buf, msg + 2, count))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	ret = hid_hw_raw_request(hdev, 0xf5, msg, sizeof(msg),
> +				 HID_FEATURE_REPORT, HID_REQ_SET_REPORT);
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		/* This matches bluez error message */
> +		hid_err(hdev, "failed to write master address\n");
> +		return count;
> +	}
> +
> +	return count;
> +}
> +
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(master_bdaddr, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
> +		   sony_master_bdaddr_show, sony_master_bdaddr_store);
> +
> +static int sony_set_gamepad_number(struct sony_sc *sc)
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Only DualShock 4 or Sixaxis controllers get an id.
> +	 * Only DualShock 4 or Sixaxis controllers get a number.
>  	 * All others are set to -1.
>  	 */
>  	if ((sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER) ||
>  	    (sc->quirks & DUALSHOCK4_CONTROLLER)) {
> -		ret = ida_simple_get(&sony_device_id_allocator, 0, 0,
> -					GFP_KERNEL);
> +		ret = ida_simple_get(&sony_gamepad_number_allocator, 0, 0,
> +				     GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (ret < 0) {
> -			sc->device_id = -1;
> +			sc->gamepad_number = -1;
>  			return ret;
>  		}
> -		sc->device_id = ret;
> +		sc->gamepad_number = ret;
>  	} else {
> -		sc->device_id = -1;
> +		sc->gamepad_number = -1;
>  	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void sony_release_device_id(struct sony_sc *sc)
> +static void sony_release_gamepad_number(struct sony_sc *sc)
>  {
> -	if (sc->device_id >= 0) {
> -		ida_simple_remove(&sony_device_id_allocator, sc->device_id);
> -		sc->device_id = -1;
> +	if (sc->gamepad_number >= 0) {
> +		ida_simple_remove(&sony_gamepad_number_allocator,
> +				  sc->gamepad_number);
> +		sc->gamepad_number = -1;
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static ssize_t sony_gamepad_number_show(struct device *dev,
> +					struct device_attribute *attr,
> +					char *buf)
> +{
> +	struct hid_device *hdev = container_of(dev, struct hid_device, dev);
> +	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
> +	size_t count;
> +
> +	if (!sc) {
> +		hid_err(hdev, "No device data\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (sc->gamepad_number < 0)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	/* Add one to match console user expectations */
> +	count = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%i\n", sc->gamepad_number + 1);
> +	return count;
> +}
> +
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(gamepad_number, S_IRUGO, sony_gamepad_number_show, NULL);
> +
>  static inline void sony_init_work(struct sony_sc *sc,
>  					void (*worker)(struct work_struct *))
>  {
> @@ -1841,10 +2017,22 @@ static int sony_probe(struct hid_device
>  		return ret;
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = sony_set_device_id(sc);
> +	ret = sony_set_gamepad_number(sc);
>  	if (ret < 0) {
> -		hid_err(hdev, "failed to allocate the device id\n");
> -		goto err_stop;
> +		hid_err(hdev, "failed to allocate the gamepad number\n");
> +		goto err_nosysfs2;
> +	}
> +
> +	ret = device_create_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_gamepad_number);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		hid_err(hdev, "failed to create gamepad_number sysfs file\n");
> +		goto err_nosysfs2;
> +	}
> +
> +	ret = device_create_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		hid_err(hdev, "failed to create master_bdaddr sysfs file\n");
> +		goto err_nosysfs1;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB) {
> @@ -1932,13 +2120,17 @@ static int sony_probe(struct hid_device
>  err_close:
>  	hid_hw_close(hdev);
>  err_stop:
> +	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
> +err_nosysfs1:
> +	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_gamepad_number);
> +err_nosysfs2:
>  	if (sc->quirks & SONY_LED_SUPPORT)
>  		sony_leds_remove(sc);
>  	if (sc->quirks & SONY_BATTERY_SUPPORT)
>  		sony_battery_remove(sc);
>  	sony_cancel_work_sync(sc);
>  	sony_remove_dev_list(sc);
> -	sony_release_device_id(sc);
> +	sony_release_gamepad_number(sc);
>  	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> @@ -1959,7 +2151,11 @@ static void sony_remove(struct hid_devic
>  
>  	sony_remove_dev_list(sc);
>  
> -	sony_release_device_id(sc);
> +	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
> +
> +	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_gamepad_number);
> +
> +	sony_release_gamepad_number(sc);
>  
>  	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
>  }
> @@ -2017,7 +2213,7 @@ static void __exit sony_exit(void)
>  {
>  	dbg_hid("Sony:%s\n", __func__);
>  
> -	ida_destroy(&sony_device_id_allocator);
> +	ida_destroy(&sony_gamepad_number_allocator);
>  	hid_unregister_driver(&sony_driver);
>  }
>  module_init(sony_init);
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bri Nov. 18, 2014, 2:01 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:35:18PM +0100, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> I had tried doing something similar in the past (the parsing was just a
> sscanf): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/5261 but then
> we deliberately decided against exposing specific sysfs interfaces for
> device/master_bdaddr, you can just use generic HID feature reports from
> userspace to get/set these, write a simple program reusing the code in
> the BlueZ sixaxis plugin, using the ioclts
> HIDIOCGFEATURE/HIDIOCSFEATURE, this way you don't depend on libusb. As
> an historical note, the BlueZ sixaxis plugin was one of the first user
> of these ioctls.

...

> That said I still don't think the changes you are proposing are strictly
> necessary in the kernel driver, but let's see what the others have to
> say about that.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:39:35PM -0500, Frank Praznik wrote:
> Agreed, I don't see a need for exposing this as a sysfs entry since it's
> easy enough to use hidraw and an ioctl call to set/get the master address.

For this argument I would offer that "easy" is different for you or I
working on a development system than for a less versed person working
to personally customize an appliance that didn't come with a gcc package,
but probably did come with /bin/sh.

(That it is no longer necessary to detach the kernel driver and go
through another enumeration cycle as it was with libusb is a definite
improvement.)

Frank, still:
> What happened when plugging in a DS3 or DS4 via USB when it was already
> connected via Bluetooth was that you ended up with a duplicate device.  In
> the case of the DS3 the extra controller entry was basically a
> non-functional "zombie" since the controller itself didn't send any events
> over USB if it was already running over Bluetooth.  If you want to switch
> from wireless to wired you just have to disconnect first.  I don't think
> it's possible to get around this, at least not in a way that is as seamless
> as the current solution.

Is that a limitation of the device, in your assessment, or a shortcoming
of the driver code/hid-core?  I know the PS3 can at least sleep the
dualshocks while they are on BT, so could a disconnect not be sent by bluez
upon sensing the USB connection?  At that point the problem boils down to
descriptor churn, which is entirely an artifact of the driver model, and
maybe it is time to challenge that model a tiny bit.

From an end-user perspective, with USB "disconnecting" is something as
easy and self-explanatory as pulling a wire.  With bluetooth not so much,
so your average console user is going to be without a UI-less recourse
if they want to go back to wired operation hastily during play, unless
we make connecting USB a surrogate for disconnecting BT.

> Just one code comment to add to what Antonio already said:
>
> >
> >+
> >+    ret = device_create_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
> >+    if (ret) {
> >+            hid_err(hdev, "failed to create master_bdaddr sysfs file\n");
> >+            goto err_nosysfs1;

> >     }

> Why even expose this on the DS4 or the Sixaxis when in Bluetooth mode?  Put
> it behind if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB)

I figured it would be easier for shell scripts if the fd always exists.  Also
if you had multiple bluetooth hosts and were using it to figure out which
one a controller was currently attached to you would not have to do anything
additional.  But, as Antonio points out:

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:35:18PM +0100, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> > +#include <net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h>
> > +#include <net/bluetooth/hci_core.h>
> 
> A HID driver should not need to depend on bluetooth, no other HID
> driver does. Layer violations should be avoided as much as possible.

...so yeah that was probably a bad idea, though it does make me wonder
if there is a proper way for a device hid driver to query properties
of its host.

Continuing on with Antonio's comments:
> I'd also try to avoid custom parsing routines in kernel code as much as
> possible.

Sorry, I work as a network administrator and lose a minimum of 10 minutes
of productivity a day massaging pasted MAC addresses between different
formats, and that adds up over time.  So, I just could not bring myself
to become part of that problem.

> You know you can build Debian packages from the official git kernel
> repository, don't you?
>       make LOCALVERSION=-brian INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 deb-pkg

I had in fact missed that development, thank you.

> > On the other hand this is not the behavior gamers expect and will not
> > help matters if the reason for plugging the pad in was to decrease
> > latency due to RF contention.
>
> This is an interesting point, can you show numbers about these latency
> problems?

Personally, no, not being a gadgeteer, I don't own enough RF devices to
test that.  Also I'm an old caffeine-damaged fogey who doesn't have the
steady hand to play twitch games anymore so I cannot say I have experienced
it personally.

In lieu of that I can offer that a google search of "ps4 controller wired"
shows evidence that a lack of wired fallback functionality earns brickbats
from the gamer community.  I'd also point out that SteamOS is certainly going
to find itself in tournament and LAN-party situations where many systems
are crammed in close quarters.

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Frank Praznik Nov. 18, 2014, 3:21 a.m. UTC | #3
Hi Brian,

On 11/17/2014 19:00, bri wrote:
>
>> Yeah, the device ID in the driver is only for tracking devices internally
>> and setting sane default LED values.  It has no meaning outside of the
>> module.  Like Antonio said, if you want the system number for a controller
>> you are better off just getting it from the joystick device.
> Would you be amenable to a patch that removes the IDA entirely and just sets
> the LEDs to all solid-on?  Since the LEDs are available through sysfs,
> udev rule could probably be made to set the LEDs in the absence of bluez
> or a higher level controller manager, and then it becomes the distro's
> responsibility.
>

What would be the benefit of doing this?  Nothing is stopping higher 
level services from setting the LEDs right now.  The driver just sets 
sane defaults for systems that don't have anything else to set the 
'real' values.  Other controllers like Wiimotes and Xbox gamepads do the 
same thing.  It doesn't get in the way of services like BlueZ setting 
them once initialization is complete.

Leaving it completely up to the distro just means that there will be 
situations where there is nothing to set the default values which makes 
for a bad user experience.
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bri Nov. 18, 2014, 2:26 p.m. UTC | #4
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:21:53PM -0500, Frank Praznik wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> On 11/17/2014 19:00, bri wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah, the device ID in the driver is only for tracking devices internally
> >>and setting sane default LED values.  It has no meaning outside of the
> >>module.  Like Antonio said, if you want the system number for a controller
> >>you are better off just getting it from the joystick device.
> >Would you be amenable to a patch that removes the IDA entirely and just sets
> >the LEDs to all solid-on?  Since the LEDs are available through sysfs,
> >udev rule could probably be made to set the LEDs in the absence of bluez
> >or a higher level controller manager, and then it becomes the distro's
> >responsibility.
> >
> 
> What would be the benefit of doing this?  Nothing is stopping higher level
> services from setting the LEDs right now.  The driver just sets sane
> defaults for systems that don't have anything else to set the 'real' values.
> Other controllers like Wiimotes and Xbox gamepads do the same thing.  It
> doesn't get in the way of services like BlueZ setting them once
> initialization is complete.
> 
> Leaving it completely up to the distro just means that there will be
> situations where there is nothing to set the default values which makes for
> a bad user experience.

It would eliminate 50 to 100 lines of code just for that tiny purpose,
which userspace can and probably should take care of, given the disparity
with the eventual values.  I'm honestly a bit confused of the criteria in use
here, as I thought it was mostly deciding between the usefulness of features
versus maintainability.  In my mind if I weight a master_bdaddr sysfs file
and the code to support it versus this feature, I don't see where this one
wins out.

But whatever.  I made this for my own use, and offered it up, and if the
community does not want it I am free to keep using what I made, so I'm happy
either way.

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Antonio Ospite Nov. 18, 2014, 10:30 p.m. UTC | #5
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:26:29 -0500
bri <bri@abrij.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:21:53PM -0500, Frank Praznik wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> > 
> > On 11/17/2014 19:00, bri wrote:
> > >
> > >>Yeah, the device ID in the driver is only for tracking devices internally
> > >>and setting sane default LED values.  It has no meaning outside of the
> > >>module.  Like Antonio said, if you want the system number for a controller
> > >>you are better off just getting it from the joystick device.
> > >Would you be amenable to a patch that removes the IDA entirely and just sets
> > >the LEDs to all solid-on?  Since the LEDs are available through sysfs,
> > >udev rule could probably be made to set the LEDs in the absence of bluez
> > >or a higher level controller manager, and then it becomes the distro's
> > >responsibility.
> > >
> > 
> > What would be the benefit of doing this?  Nothing is stopping higher level
> > services from setting the LEDs right now.  The driver just sets sane
> > defaults for systems that don't have anything else to set the 'real' values.
> > Other controllers like Wiimotes and Xbox gamepads do the same thing.  It
> > doesn't get in the way of services like BlueZ setting them once
> > initialization is complete.
> > 
> > Leaving it completely up to the distro just means that there will be
> > situations where there is nothing to set the default values which makes for
> > a bad user experience.
> 
> It would eliminate 50 to 100 lines of code just for that tiny purpose,
> which userspace can and probably should take care of, given the disparity
> with the eventual values.  I'm honestly a bit confused of the criteria in use
> here, as I thought it was mostly deciding between the usefulness of features
> versus maintainability.  In my mind if I weight a master_bdaddr sysfs file
> and the code to support it versus this feature, I don't see where this one
> wins out.
>

I don't find the IDA code and the default LED state super useful
either, and the functionality over USB is limited, but the actual point
is that, in general, removing stuff is a bigger deal than refusing to
add new optional features: people may rely on, or expect the behavior
of, the code that is _already_ there.

The IDA code was added in the first place because Frank found it
useful, and being him the de-facto maintainer of the driver (he
had worked on it for quite a while before he added the IDA code) he has
a stronger voice in the decisions.

If you ask me, wrt. usefulness and necessity the two functionality
are more or less on the same level but the code which is already there
will more likely stay in.

> But whatever.  I made this for my own use, and offered it up, and if the
> community does not want it I am free to keep using what I made, so I'm happy
> either way.
> 

I'll comment on that in the other mail when you talk about the shell
solution.

Ciao,
   Antonio
Antonio Ospite Nov. 18, 2014, 10:43 p.m. UTC | #6
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:01:44 -0500
bri <bri@abrij.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:35:18PM +0100, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> > I had tried doing something similar in the past (the parsing was just a
> > sscanf): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/5261 but then
> > we deliberately decided against exposing specific sysfs interfaces for
> > device/master_bdaddr, you can just use generic HID feature reports from
> > userspace to get/set these, write a simple program reusing the code in
> > the BlueZ sixaxis plugin, using the ioclts
> > HIDIOCGFEATURE/HIDIOCSFEATURE, this way you don't depend on libusb. As
> > an historical note, the BlueZ sixaxis plugin was one of the first user
> > of these ioctls.
> 
> ...
> 
> > That said I still don't think the changes you are proposing are strictly
> > necessary in the kernel driver, but let's see what the others have to
> > say about that.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:39:35PM -0500, Frank Praznik wrote:
> > Agreed, I don't see a need for exposing this as a sysfs entry since it's
> > easy enough to use hidraw and an ioctl call to set/get the master address.
> 
> For this argument I would offer that "easy" is different for you or I
> working on a development system than for a less versed person working
> to personally customize an appliance that didn't come with a gcc package,
> but probably did come with /bin/sh.
> 

If you can upload a shell script to the target system you may as well
upload a static binary; and if you can use a modified kernel you can
compile _for_ the target even if not _on_ the target.

And if you need help to write the program which uses the HID ioctls
just ask :)

Ciao,
   Antonio
bri Nov. 19, 2014, 12:13 a.m. UTC | #7
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:43:49PM +0100, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:01:44 -0500
> bri <bri@abrij.org> wrote:
> If you can upload a shell script to the target system you may as well
> upload a static binary; and if you can use a modified kernel you can
> compile _for_ the target even if not _on_ the target.
>
> And if you need help to write the program which uses the HID ioctls
> just ask :)

What, no, that's really super easy for me.  I don't prefer to do it that
way, personally so I won't -- I'm going to have to heavily mod things
down through hid-core and up through js to get other behaviors I want,
anyway.

The point of pushing the patch up here, of course, was so that people
who could not do many of the above listed things would have an easy
interface.

Thanks, though.

If I actually end up having the time to get anything working I'll post
a link to a repo so that if anything looks in there looks interesting
someone can ask me for a patch submittal.

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diff mbox

Patch

--- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c.orig	2014-11-05 20:32:47.387599486 -0500
+++ drivers/hid/hid-sony.c	2014-11-14 20:35:28.327053036 -0500
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ 
  *  Copyright (c) 2012 David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
  *  Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Jiri Kosina
  *  Copyright (c) 2013 Colin Leitner <colin.leitner@gmail.com>
+ *  Copyright (c) 2014 Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>
  */
 
 /*
@@ -35,6 +36,9 @@ 
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/input/mt.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h>
+#include <net/bluetooth/hci_core.h>
 
 #include "hid-ids.h"
 
@@ -750,7 +754,7 @@  union sixaxis_output_report_01 {
 
 static spinlock_t sony_dev_list_lock;
 static LIST_HEAD(sony_device_list);
-static DEFINE_IDA(sony_device_id_allocator);
+static DEFINE_IDA(sony_gamepad_number_allocator);
 
 struct sony_sc {
 	spinlock_t lock;
@@ -760,7 +764,7 @@  struct sony_sc {
 	unsigned long quirks;
 	struct work_struct state_worker;
 	struct power_supply battery;
-	int device_id;
+	int gamepad_number;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SONY_FF
 	__u8 left;
@@ -1321,7 +1325,8 @@  static int sony_leds_init(struct sony_sc
 		if (!hid_validate_values(hdev, HID_OUTPUT_REPORT, 0, 0, 7))
 			return -ENODEV;
 	} else if (sc->quirks & DUALSHOCK4_CONTROLLER) {
-		dualshock4_set_leds_from_id(sc->device_id, initial_values);
+		dualshock4_set_leds_from_id(sc->gamepad_number,
+					    initial_values);
 		initial_values[3] = 1;
 		sc->led_count = 4;
 		memset(max_brightness, 255, 3);
@@ -1330,7 +1335,7 @@  static int sony_leds_init(struct sony_sc
 		name_len = 0;
 		name_fmt = "%s:%s";
 	} else {
-		sixaxis_set_leds_from_id(sc->device_id, initial_values);
+		sixaxis_set_leds_from_id(sc->gamepad_number, initial_values);
 		sc->led_count = 4;
 		memset(use_hw_blink, 1, 4);
 		use_ds4_names = 0;
@@ -1758,38 +1763,209 @@  static int sony_check_add(struct sony_sc
 	return sony_check_add_dev_list(sc);
 }
 
-static int sony_set_device_id(struct sony_sc *sc)
+/* PS3 pads do not pair over bluetooth; Instead a USB handshake is used. */
+static ssize_t sony_master_bdaddr_show(struct device *dev,
+				       struct device_attribute *attr,
+				       char *buf)
+{
+	struct hid_device *hdev = container_of(dev, struct hid_device, dev);
+	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
+	size_t count;
+	unsigned char msg[8];
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!sc) {
+		hid_err(hdev, "No device data\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_BT) {
+		struct device *parent;
+
+		parent = dev->parent;
+		if (!parent)
+			return 0;
+		parent = parent->parent;
+		if (!parent || !parent->type
+		    || strcmp(parent->type->name, "host"))
+			return 0;
+
+		count = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%pMR\n",
+				  &(to_hci_dev(parent)->bdaddr));
+		return count;
+	}
+
+	if (!(sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB))
+		return 0;
+
+	ret = hid_hw_raw_request(hdev, 0xf5, msg, sizeof(msg),
+				 HID_FEATURE_REPORT, HID_REQ_GET_REPORT);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		/* This matches bluez error message */
+		hid_err(hdev, "failed to read master address\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	count = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%pM\n", msg + 2);
+	return count;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This could probably be useful in lib/.
+ *
+ * Convert a string to a MAC address, accepting multiple formats.
+ *
+ * Will take most commonly cut-and-pasted formats without being too liberal.
+ * Accepts any hex with delims [-:.] between any octets, no mixing delims,
+ * no splitting octets.
+ *
+ * *buf should have at least 6 bytes of space and will not be altered on fail
+ * Will halt at null terminator or before reading more than lim chars from *c
+ * Return code is sscanf-style: number of non-null bytes read, or 0 on failure
+ */
+static int sony_kstrntomac(const char *c, u8 *buf, size_t lim)
+{
+	int cnt = 0;
+	int dcnt = 0;
+	char delim = '\0';
+	u8 octet[6];
+
+	while (cnt < 6) {
+		if (lim < 2 || !isxdigit(*c) || !isxdigit(*(c+1)))
+			return 0;
+
+		lim -= 2;
+
+		if (isdigit(*c))
+			octet[cnt] = (*c - '0') << 4;
+		else
+			octet[cnt] = (tolower(*c) - 'a' + 10) << 4;
+		c++;
+
+		if (isdigit(*c))
+			octet[cnt] |= *c - '0';
+		else
+			octet[cnt] |= tolower(*c) - 'a' + 10;
+		c++;
+
+		if (cnt < 5) {
+			if (!lim)
+				return 0;
+			if (!delim && (*c == '-' || *c == ':' || *c == '.'))
+				delim = *c;
+			if (delim && *c == delim) {
+				dcnt++;
+				c++;
+				lim--;
+			}
+		}
+		cnt++;
+	}
+
+	memcpy(buf, octet, 6);
+
+	return cnt * 2 + dcnt;
+}
+
+static ssize_t sony_master_bdaddr_store(struct device *dev,
+					struct device_attribute *attr,
+					const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct hid_device *hdev = container_of(dev, struct hid_device, dev);
+	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
+	u8 msg[8];
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!sc) {
+		hid_err(hdev, "No device data\n");
+		return -EBADFD;
+	}
+
+	if (!(sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB)) {
+		if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_BT) {
+			hid_err(hdev,
+				"To set master disconnect BT then use USB\n");
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		}
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+	}
+
+	msg[0] = 0x01;
+	msg[1] = 0x00;
+
+	if (!sony_kstrntomac(buf, msg + 2, count))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	ret = hid_hw_raw_request(hdev, 0xf5, msg, sizeof(msg),
+				 HID_FEATURE_REPORT, HID_REQ_SET_REPORT);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		/* This matches bluez error message */
+		hid_err(hdev, "failed to write master address\n");
+		return count;
+	}
+
+	return count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(master_bdaddr, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
+		   sony_master_bdaddr_show, sony_master_bdaddr_store);
+
+static int sony_set_gamepad_number(struct sony_sc *sc)
 {
 	int ret;
 
 	/*
-	 * Only DualShock 4 or Sixaxis controllers get an id.
+	 * Only DualShock 4 or Sixaxis controllers get a number.
 	 * All others are set to -1.
 	 */
 	if ((sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER) ||
 	    (sc->quirks & DUALSHOCK4_CONTROLLER)) {
-		ret = ida_simple_get(&sony_device_id_allocator, 0, 0,
-					GFP_KERNEL);
+		ret = ida_simple_get(&sony_gamepad_number_allocator, 0, 0,
+				     GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (ret < 0) {
-			sc->device_id = -1;
+			sc->gamepad_number = -1;
 			return ret;
 		}
-		sc->device_id = ret;
+		sc->gamepad_number = ret;
 	} else {
-		sc->device_id = -1;
+		sc->gamepad_number = -1;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void sony_release_device_id(struct sony_sc *sc)
+static void sony_release_gamepad_number(struct sony_sc *sc)
 {
-	if (sc->device_id >= 0) {
-		ida_simple_remove(&sony_device_id_allocator, sc->device_id);
-		sc->device_id = -1;
+	if (sc->gamepad_number >= 0) {
+		ida_simple_remove(&sony_gamepad_number_allocator,
+				  sc->gamepad_number);
+		sc->gamepad_number = -1;
 	}
 }
 
+static ssize_t sony_gamepad_number_show(struct device *dev,
+					struct device_attribute *attr,
+					char *buf)
+{
+	struct hid_device *hdev = container_of(dev, struct hid_device, dev);
+	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
+	size_t count;
+
+	if (!sc) {
+		hid_err(hdev, "No device data\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (sc->gamepad_number < 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Add one to match console user expectations */
+	count = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%i\n", sc->gamepad_number + 1);
+	return count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(gamepad_number, S_IRUGO, sony_gamepad_number_show, NULL);
+
 static inline void sony_init_work(struct sony_sc *sc,
 					void (*worker)(struct work_struct *))
 {
@@ -1841,10 +2017,22 @@  static int sony_probe(struct hid_device
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	ret = sony_set_device_id(sc);
+	ret = sony_set_gamepad_number(sc);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		hid_err(hdev, "failed to allocate the device id\n");
-		goto err_stop;
+		hid_err(hdev, "failed to allocate the gamepad number\n");
+		goto err_nosysfs2;
+	}
+
+	ret = device_create_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_gamepad_number);
+	if (ret) {
+		hid_err(hdev, "failed to create gamepad_number sysfs file\n");
+		goto err_nosysfs2;
+	}
+
+	ret = device_create_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
+	if (ret) {
+		hid_err(hdev, "failed to create master_bdaddr sysfs file\n");
+		goto err_nosysfs1;
 	}
 
 	if (sc->quirks & SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB) {
@@ -1932,13 +2120,17 @@  static int sony_probe(struct hid_device
 err_close:
 	hid_hw_close(hdev);
 err_stop:
+	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
+err_nosysfs1:
+	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_gamepad_number);
+err_nosysfs2:
 	if (sc->quirks & SONY_LED_SUPPORT)
 		sony_leds_remove(sc);
 	if (sc->quirks & SONY_BATTERY_SUPPORT)
 		sony_battery_remove(sc);
 	sony_cancel_work_sync(sc);
 	sony_remove_dev_list(sc);
-	sony_release_device_id(sc);
+	sony_release_gamepad_number(sc);
 	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1959,7 +2151,11 @@  static void sony_remove(struct hid_devic
 
 	sony_remove_dev_list(sc);
 
-	sony_release_device_id(sc);
+	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_master_bdaddr);
+
+	device_remove_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_gamepad_number);
+
+	sony_release_gamepad_number(sc);
 
 	hid_hw_stop(hdev);
 }
@@ -2017,7 +2213,7 @@  static void __exit sony_exit(void)
 {
 	dbg_hid("Sony:%s\n", __func__);
 
-	ida_destroy(&sony_device_id_allocator);
+	ida_destroy(&sony_gamepad_number_allocator);
 	hid_unregister_driver(&sony_driver);
 }
 module_init(sony_init);