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-rw-r--r--drivers/hid/hid-core.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index ba1c3644..de8220c 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1373,8 +1373,10 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
if ((connect_mask & HID_CONNECT_HIDRAW) && !hidraw_connect(hdev))
hdev->claimed |= HID_CLAIMED_HIDRAW;
- if (!hdev->claimed) {
- hid_err(hdev, "claimed by neither input, hiddev nor hidraw\n");
+ /* Drivers with the ->raw_event callback set are not required to connect
+ * to any other listener. */
+ if (!hdev->claimed && !hdev->driver->raw_event) {
+ hid_err(hdev, "device has no listeners, quitting\n");
return -ENODEV;
}
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