diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
index 366fd09d257d..99d95d3368b5 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
@@ -1264,6 +1264,7 @@ static struct hid_ll_driver usb_hid_driver = {
 	.power = usbhid_power,
 	.hidinput_input_event = usb_hidinput_input_event,
 	.request = usbhid_request,
+	.wait = usbhid_wait_io,
 };
 
 static int usbhid_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *id)
diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
index 261c713d4842..7071eb3d36c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/hid.h
+++ b/include/linux/hid.h
@@ -663,6 +663,7 @@ struct hid_driver {
  * @parse: this method is called only once to parse the device data,
  *	   shouldn't allocate anything to not leak memory
  * @request: send report request to device (e.g. feature report)
+ * @wait: wait for buffered io to complete (send/recv reports)
  */
 struct hid_ll_driver {
 	int (*start)(struct hid_device *hdev);
@@ -681,6 +682,8 @@ struct hid_ll_driver {
 	void (*request)(struct hid_device *hdev,
 			struct hid_report *report, int reqtype);
 
+	int (*wait)(struct hid_device *hdev);
+
 };
 
 #define	PM_HINT_FULLON	1<<5
@@ -903,6 +906,17 @@ static inline void hid_hw_request(struct hid_device *hdev,
 		hdev->ll_driver->request(hdev, report, reqtype);
 }
 
+/**
+ * hid_hw_wait - wait for buffered io to complete
+ *
+ * @hdev: hid device
+ */
+static inline void hid_hw_wait(struct hid_device *hdev)
+{
+	if (hdev->ll_driver->wait)
+		hdev->ll_driver->wait(hdev);
+}
+
 int hid_report_raw_event(struct hid_device *hid, int type, u8 *data, int size,
 		int interrupt);