hid_parse(9)

✨ hid_parse(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the hid_parse page — it lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's giving "small function, big responsibility" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hid_parse — parse HW reports

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int hid_parse (struct hid_device *hdev );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• hdev — the hid device 🎀 (that's it, that's the whole argument, we love a low-maintenance king)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: call this from probe, after you've set up the device (if you even needed to, no pressure 🫶).

And here's the cute part — your report_fixup is gonna get called (if it's non-NULL, like if it actually exists 💀) after reading the raw report from the device, and before passing it to the hid layer for real parsing. So it's literally the middle-man moment, the glow-up window, the "let me just tweak this before the actual processing happens" era 🌈. No cap, that ordering is the whole point.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./include/linux/hid.h — and like, the whole friend group:

• HID quirks(9)
• struct hid_battery(9)
• struct hid_driver(9)
• struct hid_ll_driver(9)
• module_hid_driver(9)
• hid_device_io_start(9)
• hid_device_io_stop(9)
• hid_map_usage(9)
• hid_map_usage_clear(9)
• hid_hw_power(9)
• hid_hw_idle(9)
• hid_hw_may_wakeup(9)
• hid_hw_wait(9)
• hid_report_len(9)

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🥺 and that's the whole page, bestie — short and iconic. shoutout to ./include/linux for hosting it, October 2026 for the date stamp, and the Kernel API Manual for the home. mwah 💋✨